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[Richard230]

TV and radio news reports over the past 24 hours have been lamenting the introduction of electric stand-up (Razor-type) electric scooters into San Francisco by three different companies. The scooters can be dropped off anywhere on the streets and can be unlocked for a price of $1 and  then can be ridden around the city for 15 cents a minute. The problem is that the people riding these things are riding like jerks, without a helmet, on the sidewalk weaving in and out of pedestrians (lots of those in SF) and dropping the scooters off on the sidewalks at hazardous locations. Needless to say the news reports claim that most of these scooter riders are high-paid, high-tech, downtown workers (which the city officials love to hate).  News reports say that it is time for a crackdown by the city that would allow them to be confiscated by city workers if they find them to be parked at unapproved locations. Drama in the City.   

[MrDude_1]

as usual TV and "news" outlets are only a month or two behind on the times with the story. lol.

[NEW2elec]

Who charges them up?
Everybody wants to make everything a perpetual commodity like cell phones.
But the worst and nastiest traveling you'll ever do is in a "shared" platform.  Buses, Taxis, piss soaked subways.
As the great Billy Ocean sang "get out of my dreams and get into MY car" not OUR car.

[Richard230]

Who charges them up?
Everybody wants to make everything a perpetual commodity like cell phones.
But the worst and nastiest traveling you'll ever do is in a "shared" platform.  Buses, Taxis, piss soaked subways.
As the great Billy Ocean sang "get out of my dreams and get into MY car" not OUR car.

The e-scooter rental companies have employees who go around to the scooters and replace the batteries every day.  When they start to pile up in one spot, they also pick them up and move them to other areas of the city where they feel they will be needed later.  They also fish them out of urban lakes where disgruntled local residents dump them in the hopes that they will go away. The green ones are owned by a company called Lime-S.  Apparently their scooters don't float. 

My newspaper today reported that other cities in the Bay Area are complaining about the scooters, including San Jose. These e-scooter companies just drop off hundreds of the scooters without letting the city know about them and then let the public start having fun riding them and dropping them off wherever they please.  So far the scooters have been spotted in 60 cities around the U.S., according to the newspaper article.  This was all news to me - until yesterday. 

[Richard230]

The local TV news has just reported that SF DPW scooped up 160 scooters today that were left on sidewalks by their riders and are holding them for ransom.  If the companies want them back they can pay the city $125 each.  Alternately, they will have to meet with city officials and come up with a way to keep them from blocking sidewalks and obtain a city $$$ permit.