Showroom7561

I've owned a private e-scooter for many years and have been using it more often over the last year despite the fact that I also use my bikes for pretty much everything.

The main advantages that I would say put e-scooters ahead of ebikes is the extremely low maintenance, extremely high portability, and the general lower cost of entry, even to get a fairly decent one.

These scooters do lack carrying capacity, and obviously you aren't getting a workout like you would even on an ebike. However, for short trips where the goal is to get to your destination without sweat and to be able to very neatly tuck this pretty much anywhere, then I think they absolutely have their place.

There had been a sharp increase in e-scooter riders this year, but we also have a rideshare e-scooter program that hasn't been implemented yet this year due to some kind of contract negotiation issue. So I think a lot of people are just purchasing their own and using them instead of cars or public transit. So on one hand, it's actually a good thing, but on the other hand, I also find that almost none are wearing helmets and quite a few are riding dangerously on sidewalks.

So there's still a lot to learn. But this is fairly new tech, and there are going to be growing pains.

Younger children on these is dangerous, though. These are nothing like your traditional kick scooter that kids would normally be riding.

I don't know if you're being serious or not, but I can't imagine doing something, knowingly, that would cause emotional distress to a loved one.

You have to consider the effort that someone else in your family will have to go through in order to attempt to get you freed from a country under a hostile dictatorship.

Again, perhaps this is worth the risk. I wouldn't want any of my family travelling anywhere to see me, if it puts their life or freedom at risk. This isn't a movie.

I thought communists were bad. Or is that what liberals think? Are Republicans okay with communists now? What's even happening? 😂😂😂

Not only will it create fake video and photos and articles, but it will also create fake comments, websites to back up the fake, and other articles leaching off of the original fake.

Digital media will become so unreliable that information itself will be at risk of being too untrustworthy to use or share.

Would you rather pop die alone in the hospital knowing that you're in a concentration camp? Come on man, think.

They are treating ordinary Canadian citizens as criminals. It will be a risk. And if you're willing to take that risk, you have to be willing to take the consequences that are pretty much well known at this point.

Sometimes you have to use the tools of the enemy to defeat the enemy. 🤗

I totally get that, but it's still a massive risk. Going to see your sick family member might mean you'll be held in a detention center. Is it really worth it?

It's kind of infuriating how the EU can make some of the most incredible rules that actually benefit society, and at the same time make the worst possible decisions in other areas. 😮‍💨

These articles are all full of shit. Unless Tesla's stock drops to zero, they're doing just fine. In fact, their stock has been going up since all this bullshit started happening. It's unbelievable.

Never mind shade, anyone who's ever ridden a bicycle from the country into an urban area will instantly feel the rise in air temperature. It's almost unbelievable, like you've stepped into a different planet.

But it's okay because cars have air conditioning. /s 😒

Idiots like that only see in terms of volume rather than people moved.

So seeing a traffic jam, which might only have a hundred cars, is like a wet dream to them compared to seeing a thousand cyclists in half the amount of space.

It's disturbing that somebody like that could even be in any position of power, let alone ministry of transportation.

Looks like cars should get that 1m wide lane, and give cyclists the full road, instead. 😂

These numbers are high, but just imagine if cycling infrastructure was a priority, rather than an afterthought that needs to be fought for every single day. I have no doubt that cyclists would outnumber drivers pretty much any time, and maybe that's why drivers are getting increasingly more hostile.