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No.

I can’t believe people still think flying cars will become a thing when people can’t even be trusted on e scooters

Flying cars do exist. They have 3 tiny wheels, are ~150m long and are called “planes”.

they are beginning now to sell actual flying drones with chairs... they are about 100k... theyre not automated yet but they should be... it would be much easier to automate them than anything on the ground

@dab_u planes are buses with less wheels, not cars.

@tiefensucht And Buses are just longer cars

@dab_u ..with much more seats. Just to make a point: Flying cars are about personal transport, like in The Jetsons.

Back in high school, some friends of mine went "fishing" for these scooters in a local lake, tore them apart and built a shopping cart chariot out of the parts which still worked.

That's way punk dude. Lol

By far my favorite experience with one of these things is when I was in the Navy a Chief got a DUI on one of these things. My CO made this man give a speech to the entire squadron explaining this and to this day it is one of the funniest things I was not allowed to laugh at.

this will probably be the most underrated youtube comment i will ever read

Can you perhaps share any excerpts from this speech please?

@Emmet Coyne there's nothing really memorable what he said, he was definitely just making it up as he went along. A lot of "I was an idiot, don't make the same mistakes I did, etc." kind of stuff.

That would be a Dishonorable Discharge for me!

Dude, your cheeks were probably inflated like a squirrel’s trying to hold in the laughs In fact you could’ve revolutionized balloon travel

Where I live these things have turned out pretty great after the initial years of chaos. I believe the city demanded geo-based speed limiting to keep speeds reasonable in dense areas. Also, the cycle path network is dense and connected enough that you rarely see people scooting fast on the sidewalk or in the street. People still park them like idiots though! That's my main issue with them.

I think that's going to be an issue with any rideshare vehicle. The best solution I think are letting people report instances of poor parking & so long as it's sensors don't determine it was tampered with since it's last rider, penalise the last user with either an increased rate to their next trip, or potentially even banning them entirely for repeat (or egregious) offenses.

Docking stations would help. Also when the scooters immobile make it stand up by itself....

@Clement, Lime took away the ability to report incidents. Someone in my building parks one in our underground garage, which doesn't get a signal, so it's essentially off the grid. I wanted to report them, but damned if I could figure it out. Used to be pretty easy and intuitive.

I think the biggest problem with e-scoters is the fact that they are dumping too many of them on every sidewalk, plus as the video said since there is multiple companies competing against each other you have too may scooters and they start to pile up everywhere, people kinda treat them like trash and disposable when there's literal piles of them

my biggest problem with them is price. Just to start a ride you need to pay 1€ upfront and then smth like 20 cents every minute. If I take a ride that's 10 minutes I already paid 3€ which is even more than a simple bus ticket for twice the range. If I had to go 30 minutes with that thing, I'd pay more than a whole day ticket for the whole public transport in my city, which is insane.

@IljasCustoms how many minutes would you walk and wait for busses though?

I mean, other countries do it too & they don't get as batshit insane as over there does.

I mean i just started going out for walks and I can confirm those things are usually sideways in middle of the sidewalk

I find one in the middle of a sidewalk once a month I'd say.

Here in germany it was a mostly positive experience to me. They're useful for the last mile between bus/trainstop and your destination and only cost 1-3€ for the trip. And generally people parked them in spots where they aren't bothering anyone. I guess it helps having the city designed with bicycle traffic in mind. In terms of the amount of scooters, it seemed to be just the right amount. I've rarely seen more than 2-3 at a location.

As a Canadian who has the EXACT same experience, I think we're seeing a case of "Americans think the rest of the world acts like they do". Majority of everywhere that has had these installed outside of the USA has been absolutely great. If anything, Lime's becoming a very good bar at seeing how terribly selfish a population is.

The last mile? You can run that, no need to spend money

Do they venture on the autobahns? Where I drive the speed limit is strictly 90 kmh, and cameras on every lamppost. I have to stick to 90 (alright, 100 to make for untaxable margin) - but these dudes on scooters have no number tags and they don't follow any speed limits. And the law says, if the scooter flying at 120kmh rear ends my car, I'm liable for a pedestrian accident. Nice. Really nice. Just imagine what they would do on German autobahns.

@jmi Pretty sure those things max out at something like 20kmh, and as such are not allowed on the autobahn. There is a minimum speed limit of 60kmh. Not sure how liable you are if you hit some hapless idiot venturing onto the autobahn tho.

@MrAntiKnowledge Even a wimpy 5KW motor can easily propel a lightweight rider to 100 kmh. The kids that pass me on the freeway are more into 10KW or even 2*10KW range. That's real motorcycle territory... on 4-inch wheels.

E-scooters are so environmentally friendly, people were exceedingly eager to help sea creatures use them as well.

"A woman needs a man like a fish needs a Lime e-scooter"

Still waste full to trash the scooters to the sea

The ocean is allowed a few e-scooters, as a treat

A seal riding a lime scooter is cool.

You have to toss them a phone too so they can scan it. They’ll know what’s up

I rode an e scooter for the first time after a concert last night. I was waiting for a $30 Uber along with everyone else and saw scooters littered all over a sidewalk. Picked one up without knowing how much it’d cost. Rode it 3 miles home and paid $12. 10/10 They’re fucking fun too.

Yes I came home late from a bar in nyc and it was awesome to ride a scooter home than have to risk the spooky ass subway at 4am

Just get a real scooter or a bike ffs.

@Tom Clancy you seem to miss the point, they didnt bring a transport option of their own, and thats where these things work nicely

@joule400 i get it i get it but I just get real pissed because of these things

@Tom Clancy lol never had a go on a e scooter so would like to try it one time but yea vespa all the way

I wasn't working as an EMT at the time, but one of my coworkers was, and he has at least two collisions on record of e-scooters crashing into the ambulance One of them was while taking someone to the hospital _WHO WAS INJURED IN AN AUTO VS SCOOTER COLLISION_ Another one had a scooter collide into the ambulance at an incident. Yes. At an incident. _WHEN IT WASN'T MOVING_

Was just up in Lake Tahoe, and the scooter lanes overlap the turnout for cars, leading to several close calls against scooter riders who weren’t looking both ways.

Wait until you see what people do with cars. You're going to be blowing your mind that we let a significant amount of the population use these things.

How is any of that an e-scooters fault?

I live in London and got myself an electric unicycle (EUC) a couple of years ago. It's rather minimalist as it's just a wheel with a footplate on either side. It has a range of 50 miles, easily keeps up with suburban traffic and costs about $0.25 to recharge. The wheel itself is about the size of small motorcycle wheel so it easily copes with bumps. I'll admit they're quite hard to learn to ride but they do seems a perfect answer to today's congested cities. I'm almost 60 years old but I'm happy to look for solutions to our congested cities.

What advantage does that have over, for example, an electrified Brompton which has a similar footprint when folded, is far more stable, maneuverable, holds your luggage for you, and can still be operated to get home if you run out of charge?

@Clement Moraschi I used to ride a bicycle and later an ebike in London but I found I couldn't quite keep up with normal traffic on a standard bike and I was always worried about having the ebike stolen when it was parked. The Brompton's an excellent solution though as you don't have to lock it outside but it's double the price of my current device and not everyone has a minimum of £3K to spend on a bicycle.

@Clement Moraschi Those might be advantages to YOU but not other people. Folding it is a nightmare, it's not any more stable nor maneuverable(how can those be both up points if they are literally opposite sides of the same scale?) I don't have any luggage and I'd have to ride my monowheel for three days straight to run out of charge. Also, as original poster mentioned, it costs a fuckton of money. So what are the advantages again?

​@Clement Moraschi I had a folding ebike for years, not a Brompton cause im not literally made of money. But folding it was such a awkward and physically demanding process. And since the reason I wanted an ebike was because I have chronic health issues that limit my energy I ended up hardly ever actually folding it. Just used it as a regular bike with smaller wheels and worse steering. But it was still great. I now have a new regular ebike which I love after the battery gave out in my old one for the second time. But I have to say I am being tempted by some form of micro electric thing too for short journeys cause they seem like they are just soo much lighter and more convenient to take on and off busses and trains and carry up and down steps etcetera. I have never taken my bike on the train simply cause I could never face the effort of manhandling it around a station where the chances of lifts not working is high. And finding room for it on the train is questionable. But these little powered mono wheels and skateboards seem like they'd be super handy mobility aids

I'm concerned by how this is, technically, or at least presented as, an alternative individual transportation that makes cities less crowded by cars that people finally seem interested in, but fails at so many departments and ruins the image of alternative transportation, specially when so many people act like the space between buildings exists for cars but hey, the good part is that cities adapting to escooters is the same as adapting to bicycles, so if they finally pay attention and care to do something with that, that can be a positive thing on the long run

A veritable _tour de force_ delivered with style and wit. *Beautifully written and narrated: some of the finest prose on YouTube* Masterful use of humour: verbal, visual, contextual and often _laugh out loud_ funny. Been bingeing your videos since the first one I saw (on Gaia) and am seriously impressed. Superlative content - interesting, entertaining and informative. Thank you!

“You can’t reinvent the wheel, but with enough venture capital you can try” is pure poetry.

the famous line about reinventing the wheel is actually about how it's stupid and pointless to do so, which is certainly still the case here

Ordinary things is beautifully vicious in his on point criticism.

@Janthran Quentai yeah. That is the point.

@Janthran Quentai No way? We had no idea! So cool! Thanks for letting us know. Literally none of us have access to the largest repository of knowledge in human history so we're lucky to have people like you to fill us in.

I went to Rome recenlty and had a blast riding around on these things, felt very unsafe but thrilling risking my life on the Italian roads

Out of all the things Marseille is known for I would not have expected to hear it's name in a documentary on electric scooters. It's a nice change. Although it's a shame you missed the photo of a french protester throwing a lime scooter at a cop that was threatening him with a gun.

M365 got me 5000km total over almost 5 years . 3 times tire replacement 3 times rear fender replacement and a one time handle grip replacement. If you take care of your own scooter the life of them can be way longer then a few months.

Those tires are a bitch to replace

@Daniel Daniels changing to solid rubber tires is the way

@BULD0SIS I have three e-scooters I ride: an m365, a Ninebot ES4, and a Lime 2.5. the old Lime and ES4 both have solid tires and much rougher ride than the m365. If it was my only scooter, I'd probably switch it to solids, but since I have others I'm sticking with air tubes and tires on it.

How did you protect it against theft?

@WarMike_1 dont leave it, and if you do leave it for a moment use a lock that requires an angle grinder to open without a key...

My first interaction with Lime was back when they were doing LimeBikes, which was literally just the same concept but with bikes (I think they do e-bikes now, but these were just normal, non-powered ones). They were everywhere on my campus for a couple of years. At first they felt like a godsend--they made getting between classes a lot easier. But as time went on, things just started getting worse and worse. First of all, they had the exact same thing as the scooters where people would just dump them anywhere, which was really annoying, but that was the least of their problems. There were always technical issues. Sometimes you couldn't successfully scan in to start your ride (which was awesome when you had class all the way across campus in 10 minutes, as you can imagine), or other times the timer wouldn't shut off after you were done. A lot of the bikes were just perpetually shown as "under maintenance" even though nobody was maintaining them. You'd constantly find bikes that were missing parts--I have a memory of riding two miles in cold weather on a LimeBike with only one pedal. They were harder to vandalize than the scooters, but people did it anyway. You'd get people breaking them, stealing parts, intentionally putting them in inaccessible places. I think some guys stole like 20 of them and kept them in their dorm basement. As you can imagine, that made it a lot harder to find one when you were in a hurry, so it quickly stopped being a reliable option for actually getting around. Anyway, a few years in they totally shut down the LimeBike program to go all in on the e-scooters. I've never used them, but I can't imagine the service has gotten any better.

I really like the rentable bikes. But I wouldn’t trust lime with them.

I use them all the time when I travel to Germany for business. Between them and the electric sit on scooters I get around to see the cities for cheap which is awesome.

As an intoxicated person who has used these many times in Berlin I do like them on the weekends, when I'm drunk, just missed my connection and don't want to wait another 30 minutes to cheerfully puke in my own toilet. However, as someone who has ridden many dangerous vehicles like (motor)bikes, skateboards and your mum I'd say these things are the most dangerous. The tiny wheels with the relatively wide steering makes these things into an unstable mess.

Straight out of left field with that one

well said

especially when drunk lol

In Sweden, the police sometimes fine people not following the rules of the scooters

Mommy 🥺 Is it true what the man on the internet said?

I live in a relatively small town and I bought my own. Following traffic signs and riding in the same direction as them helps a lot. It is a pain when something does break on it(which isn't very often), but when I'm riding it to work or to hang out with friends it's a big help and saves money during these high petrol prices and having to get an Uber.

E scooters are soooo much fun, and a great way to get around. I hate that we can't have nice things.

“Bruh I’m going 50 right now!” Had me dying Ngl I like the scooters you sit on that take gas more, those are really fun

i lived downtown for 3 years and loved these things. I preferred walking normally but it was nice to have the option if I was late or tired

As someone who lost a tooth to lime scooters. This hurts and is glorious at same time

My ankles are still recovering from the razor scooter craze of the early 00s.

My ankle just started hurting by reading this ^^

Oh god, you're gonna give me war flashbacks. My ankles started throbbing just from reading this

Dude my ankles were fine until I read that.

It was a dented shin for me, but I think it's comparable

Everyone wanted one regardless

When bike rentals were banned in my home city, the Chinese company pretty much abandoned them on the street and left. People swiped them, painted over the logos and kept them. I did it as well. Free bike is a free bike.

They also got imported to poorer countries as a form of transport

I went to Paris in 2019 and my god, there were an unbelievable amount in the river. I had never seen them before bc I’m from a small ish town in America. Needless to say I was taken aback by the waste, none of us got ran over though lol

A witty and VERY well-presented episode. Thank you.

This is a life saver when you need one the most!

i never knew i need a documentary about e-scooters, but here i am. i feel like you could say that about most of this guys content. It's content you didn't know you needed, but you love it when you do.

Wow, this movement must have set a record for throwing batteries into the ocean.

Of course! It's a safe and legal thrill!

@Stormsolid to be fair, a scooter that only lasts like 3 months in public use is gonna create a ton of e-waste even if it doesn’t get thrown in the ocean

@SpookySnek safe? Yeah safer than most thrilling activities. Legal? Definitely not legal kid lol. But as the Germans say; No risk, no fun.

I genuinely appreciate how compared almost to every other YouTuber out there right now, you really don’t take yourself or the subject matter too seriously, but still do an amazing job at building a narrative and telling a story that just drags you in lol. That’s what this channels about; people with truly ‘electric’ and entertaining personalities, not people who are just convinced that’s what they have and deserve to be famous for it cuz their mirrors told them so lol 😆🤦🏻‍♂️

I rode one about 3 miles to work one time. It was fine but the small wheels mean potholes are terrifying. Bikes feel far more secure .

As a lime juicer I ride them like a block or two back to my car when I pick them up. They are fun but given that we have to pick them up and drop them off every night to charge and that you have to have at least a mid sized vehicle to do so (I drive a minivan with a tow hitch) that whole green thing doesn't really hold a lot of water

my city is relatively walkable but public transport has a relatively small window of operation and doesnt work on the weekends. so scooting to work has saved me a bunch on cab fare and the like. the main problems with those scooters (atleast the cheaper ones) is the narrow wheels which make them more prone to falling and the lack of suspension that makes using them on bumpier roads a mess.

this is awesome on so many levels! well done!

It really pains me to see those things getting destroyed like that. Don't get me wrong, although the concept is good in theory, the execution and the companies are horrible... But it's sad to see how much we take for granted high tech objects. The lithium had to be mined, transformed, built into a battery (sometimes in unethical ways), the electronics contains numerous precious metals and a lot of toxic stuff too. Yet here we are, with precious ressources going from mines to trash poisoning the environment in only a few months. What a shame

I see it as a good thing to disencourage these dumb stop gap solutions to real problems before more unethical resourses are spent on it. Its like burning up a store that sells products made by slave labour, it migh disencourage any company from using slave labour afterwards.

Who cares lmao, if you love the environment so much go build a boat and start scooping plastic out of the ocean. You won't tho, you will just complain online.

It's a shame that all of these things (batteries etc) went into shitty products that don't last in the first place - and that's even not considering deliberate trashing of it

@LithYid Wow you are so smart bro. You're really good at solving problems. Why don't you go solve all the world's problems?

@LithYid you can also just go pick up trash at your nearest park as well instead.

I like that when he talks about how scooters have your head higher from the ground which makes them more dangerous. And then immediately shows someone biking with their head even higher up from the ground

I remember the bird-pocalyspe. I couldn't walk anywhere without tripping over three of those damn things. Or having a drunk tourist almost hit me.

E-scooters have just hit my town a few weeks ago and they have quickly become a sidewalk/trail Hazard

What a beautiful comedy sketch xD Loved the humorous in the video and of course the information presented

Next up the E-Scooter side car.... which honestly wouldn't be a bad idea for extra stability and storage for a grocery run.

The problem with the scooters is the same as the problem with bicycles in the USA: our cities are not built for them and people have zero respect for other people's property. If you leave it in public it will be stolen and/or vandalized.

I ride my e-bike all over San Francisco. It's great.

@TechThatLasts How's that $5k rent treating you? lol

@tippyc2 I pay $1650 (per bedroom, two bedroom) for a nice remodeled unit in a great neighborhood two blocks from the water. This city is more expensive than I would like, of course, but I knew what I was getting into and I am compensated accordingly.

Well the problem here is with RENTAL scooters. If everyone just owned them you'd have none of the issues. But they do have to go much longer distances before they're going to be adopted en masse in the USA

Ordinary Things has got to be one of the most talented creators on this platform. If this guy actually uploaded, I could see him getting bigger than Mr Beast.

Glad i finally saw this long video, it was actually fun.

I was in Germany for a week (cologne). I really liked these things to get around. Kind of bad I needed to find out myself that they had indicators and how to use them. I was letting go of the steering wheel to indicate with my hands for the first day

I'd love to see the overlap between people who destroy e-scooters for fun and those who flip out when they can't find a working one. I bet it's huge.

Ig the people who destroy them probably have other means of transport available

@Akira Igarashi if they had other means of transport why are they even fucking around with them in the first place, odds are most of them use them

Honestly? I'd rather see the comparison between Americans vandalizing these scooters VS other countries. I'm in Richmond Canada. Apart from a few that aren't tied up when people leave, they've been absolutely amazing. I honestly think that this is one of those "Americans are proving they are the most selfish people on the planet" moments that happen hourly.

@Samsquash Lol, no. Most people in general don't use escooters. The ones vandalising them are even less likely to.

I remember how fun these were when I went to a big city with them …apparently breaking them is quite popular

Enough e-scooters. We need highly pollutive inefficient V12 Diesel Scooters with monster truck wheels.

Are you from the US?

Ironically some diesel cars might be less polluting than those e-scooters

Bring back the v10 engines

What about motorcycles?

This video reminds me of the $800 electric longboard I had for a month... That was fun while it lasted, for sure

I'm beginning to believe the guy that invented these things also owns a hospital or insurance company !

this was hilarious entertaining informative and good thanks ebro for the excellent content

This has a very Brass Eye feel to it I wasn't expecting. Well grumbled. I also found the comment about the obsequiousness of Britons very accurate and it caused me equally moderate pain and humour.

In the city I live in, there is a creek that runs through, with a path on the side. I bike the route, and there are broken scooters strewn everywhere like war casualties.

They temporarily banned them here in miami and now have implemented all these new rules, you can only go 10 mph on sidewalks and you have to wear a helmet. I can’t imagine tourists carrying around their own helmets tho so idk how that’s gonna work lol

The smartest e scooter company will integrate a helmet holder

Imagine tourists (or anyone for that matter), riding them without a helmet, just tapping the "Yes, I am wearing a helmet" button, without actually doing that. No one would do that. Definitely not where I'm from, where helments are mandatory (at least I think they are).

I thought that just ment that you can be fine for not wearing a helmet

I recall last time I was in tampa there were lots of segways.

@TheNamesJohny 10 mph on the sidewalk, if you want to go faster you use the bike lane. The street is always smoother than the sidewalk

in australia, about 2 months ago they just suddenly popped up EVERYWHERE seemingly just over a weekend- its was wild you can barely go a block without seeing one

Strange thing I noticed, E-scooters have been big in latvia for a while, I had never even seen one in the UK, when I got back they were suddenly everywhere

Very entertaining, chap. Gonna smash a few of these tomorrow out of respect

My city is essentially split down the middle by a large river. We got electric scooters not too long ago and about a month after their release, articles came out about the 7-8 or so that were thrown in the river each weekend and that went on consistently for about half a year. I’m pretty sure it’s still going on too, but now we’ve got bikes, so we’ll see how it goes.

saw some of them in a ditch a while ago. it's snowing pretty heavly right now here, so it's save to say that those things are probably broken by now. (unless the company came to pick them up)

I feel like there's two points that could have been mentioned in the vid: 1) The program that Lime had where you could pay a set amount of cash to 'own' one of their scooters and get a cut of all the rides on it, then after a period of time you had the option to either purchase it for yourself or it just became your property automatically (I can't remember, the idea was so ludicrous that I couldn't get to the end without laughing). A fantastic way to lose money and get a 6 months of constant wear-and-tear scooter for yourself afterwards. 2) The promo codes for rollout of new cities were not region locked. If somebody from, say, Barcelona, scouted some free unlocks or ride promo codes and sent them out globally, everyone could participate. Before Lime realized and started locking the codes out, people would get a good couple of hours for free. Because y'know, it's 2020, we haven't exactly figured out how that internet thing works yet.

Does it assume that your scooter will survive the period?

When they were dropped here in Sofia Bulgaria, in just two days you could see "lime trees" in the city park with scooters hanging from branches.

@SynthxBulgarians sure know how to make a joke :D

Holy fuck, that sounds hella sketchy.

I still remember how quickly they came and went in my country. We had Lime, Grin and Movo, all gone after less than 2 years of operation. I guess it was mostly due to vandalism and the fact that the service was a ripoff and nobody used it lol. Most cities aren't really made for e-scooters anyway, so it makes them super impractical and dangerous to ride around.

Well you wrong lmao got then allover vampire and evryother person owns one to me it Thame best thun I have ever got 3000 k no brakeges sagway ninebot g30 is a beast

Transition into the paid promotion was golden 😂 10/10

As a previous user of e-scooters, I can say that they’re super fun, but really dangerous. I popped my elbow from falling on one of them, I was driving relatively fast, but responsibly. Even despite my injury, I would still recommend people trying them for fun as long as they never drive up any sharp slopes or drive in traffic.

This made me laugh so hard. Thank you

you are now my favorite youtuber. don't worry it will last just about as long as my attention span. GREAT stuff, even if you are British.

the homeless in san francisco quickly realized the batteries in the scooters could not only be sold, but used to power all their low power homeless stuff, which was much safer than tapping into the eletricity of a lamp pole, or 100,000,000,000 volt transformer.

I'm a radiographer. There was guy who had injured himself while intoxicated with an e-scooter (first e-scooter accident I scanned). Some cab driver had found him laying in the streets. He had a big epidural hemorrhage in his brain and they had to open and remove a part of his skull to save his life.

So, e-scooters are bad then? Maybe you need to be more open-minded, like your patient

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@YeetusRetweetus mouhahahah

RIP BOZO LOLOLOLOL

i was in NYC and there were CITI E-Bikes EVERYWHERE, but those seem like a genuinely better route to go.

Personally i think e Scooters are a great solution for city distances and not as worse as depicted here but only under certain circumstances: in Germany Tier has E scooters on the Streets for quite a while now that are far more robust and feature a quick exchangeable battery. That way they aren't one big piece of garbage once the battery is depleted. Also they don't have to be collected anymore cause you actually get pretty decent rewards for driving to a swap station and exchanging the batteries(usually it's one free unlock+15min ride time). This way it really works. Also they made shure you cant park them like a jackass anymore, though that's also because of the municipalities having a closer eye on the scooters and issuing parking tickets now. Anyway i think they are a valid option operated like this especially since when I travel to another city i can't bring my bike but also don't want to rely only on public transport and cabs are way too expensive. So they basically are my bike supplement there and it works really well.

Brilliant Video. Thoroughly enjoyed your sense of humour 👍😍👍

I'll stick with my trusted pushbike i think, great video dude you've earned a sub

As a new zealander I can indeed confirm I was terrified i couldn’t surf the scooters or turn it into a pie

Or play rugby on them!

Did you all perform a haka before annihilating the scooter menace?

I think it's telling that the biggest problems with scooters (them being left all over the place and used unsafely) is more a problem with people than the scooters themselves.

Well, we aren't getting rid of the people...

It's total disrespect for another person's property. It's just another symptom of the disease of societal decay in the USA.

@Herkimer Snerd The property of the big companies? That's not the societal concern, it's the disrespect for the environment. And I don't just mean in an 'environmental' sense, though that is very important too. I'm talking about how people have to live around the junk/mess people make. I wouldn't even call it that societal, just fucking stupid. Like they aren't smart enough to think one step ahead about the consequences for their actions. But it is American... Not all countries are better, but quite a few are much more intelligent/respectful. I was in Norway recently and it was great. They even had e-scooters that were just being used properly.

Agreed. The scooters are fine. they are not really the problem. Some people are respectful. It's important to mention that not all riders are the same...

Great video, very in-depth and educational!

Here in Chicago they lasted the 3 month summer. More than 50% ended in compound fractures. AKA bones sticking out of skin.

I like to imagine he threw a green screen up behind a scooter on a random street to film, not haveing to buy one.

I thought this was going to be about rentable electronic scooters with seats, like the ones that were suddenly everywhere in the netherlands under the brands "GO sharing" and "Check". I live in the city center and they're really annoying sometimes. You can hear the scooters cry as they are abandoned late at night.

you got me laughing out loud at 9:00 hahahahhahaha - your videos are great man!

The weirdest take i'm getting from is, is that many people seem to be entertained by mindless vandalism. Reminds me of cavemen

2020 in a nutshell

Well, as we are pretty much the same as humans back in the Stone Age? Yeah, we are just better dressed Cavemen.

Me simple man. Me see vandalism - me OOK. Me see unvaccinated tennisist being bashed by society - me EEK. No need return to Monke. Never left.

Well, cave men are just men in caves.

In my country E-scooters have a locking mechanism that you have to put them in each time you've finished using them, if you don't then you're automatically charged double the standard price every hour unless you put it back, since the app doesn't work unless you put your card details in.

My city has invested in these both Lime and Bird. But I mostly see the Bird ones. I like the idea of these but there are a group of people who don't care about taking good care of them. To the point where every now and then I would see one with a bunch of scratches on them. The thing I still worried about is that let's say you go to a museum in the morning and after that you decide to ride one of these E-scooters a few miles up the road to a restraint for lunch. But by the time you finish lunch someone else might have taken the scooter. So you have to walk back to your car then. Another thing is that these things are starting to become the next E-waste pollution things that we have to deal with. Since the fact that so many people just dump them into rivers/lakes or they'll just just end up sitting on the sidewalk with a dead battery/broken electrical parts without anyone repairing them. Before my city invested in these E-scooters they placed Bike racks all over the place. The idea of these bike racks is that you can pay to rent one of the bikes and return it at any of the designated bike racks. With the bike rack rental system is so much more of a better concept. Since the money you pay for a rental goes to the city and it's also a monitoring system that keeps track of all the rentals along with the physical count of empty bike spots. Overall It's kinda an issue when city's invest in these E-scooters without knowing the full potential it's going have on the city. In some case it's a bad idea due to vandalism and stupid riders. Another big thing is that there is no way that a city could keep track of the 100,000+ that they'd unload onto the sidewalks throughout the city. What I mean by keeping track of them is by keeping a record of the ones that are currently in service, ones that need repairing, the ones that end up in the stupidest weirdest places, and the stolen ones.

I think the worst part of the escooters is people leaving them in the sidewalk, blocking access for people in wheelchairs.

I’ve had mine for 2 years and ride mostly to work and small shops here in New Orleans. I just make sure I stay in bike lanes and abide by traffic lights and stop signs, purely because I don’t want to be the example to end them here in Nola. They aren’t too common here, but enough where you see a few a day.

"let's invent a worse version of a bike that needs to be charged constantly and breaks in 5 months"

Humans with technology: “We must advance this and progress our knowledge” Humanity as a whole at the sight of the scooters: hAIrLesS mOnkE sMaSh

Not a single YouTuber makes me laugh my ass off while keeping me informed, top tier content mate, hope you get a lot done this year

Unfortunately, a few idiots make everyone look bad

"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it."

@TheLoneSculler I wonder if it originaly is from men in black

To be fair, the technological adancement in these scooters is something akin to sticking a clock on a pen.

I'm 68, and I own and ride an e scooter in my neighborhood. We have lots of bike lanes in my city, and I love my scooter. I first used rental scooters in Washington DC. It was a great way to beat the traffic for short trips.

Would be cool to see a similar video but about E-Bikes instead of E-Scooters

In Italy it's like the opposite. The scooters are usually kept in order in the street, few people still vandalized them and certain parts of the city have speed limit. I think we can all agree that the problem are the people, not the scooters. In the video you make it look like it's the scooter' fault, they are not dangerous, people who use unproperly are. :(

the problem will always be the people

There would be no problems without people.

i agree that it is the peoples fault but a good product allows people to make mistakes and still, yknow, live.

@jackhasarrived like cars?

That's wrong, they are inherently dangerous, since there isn't enough tolerance in user error or unexpected terrain handling. For example, a small rock is enough to completely knock someone off balance on these things. A simple increase in the size of wheels would make them significantly safer along with thicker (non solid rubber) tyres.

Man that ridgewallet spot really caught my ankle

My shins still hurt from those damn razor scooters. I had 2 gopeds growing up even though my 1st was loud and obnoxious it was so much fun. Being able to put in $1 gas and able to go across my town dozens of times was the shit

I found e-scooters fun to ride in cities with paved roads. But in Europe, many of the city centers have setts, cobblestones or other stone pavements. Not only does this shake your organs into a smoothie, but thanks to the small wheels of e-scooters, any rough patch can launch you right into the stratosphere.

This comes from most e-scooters having absolutely no suspension, and mostly not even having air-filled tires. I have seen full-suspension scooters with cushy air tires, I couldn’t give you a link, but you might wanna research specifically that.

even worse if you don’t have good roads in your city, you can feel your organs being shaken or if you absorb the shock by crawling while riding, you can feel your legs numb

@orhyn but gearhead Lol same I can imagine them being problematic in colder countries with terrible roads. Kinda explains why they are not a thing in places that snow a lot.

You have to stand on your toe tips and let your Calfs be the suspension Sounds stupid but works on Berlins cobble streets haha

You just have to look where you are going and stand on your toes every time you see a crack, then you’ve created your own suspension 😅

I live in a town called Hervey bay and man these things are everywhere. Normally I don't notice them as an anonymous until recently when I started taking long walks. With the newlywed nearly dead population of this town, these things must be keeping our hospitals busy, all you see are the oldies in mobile chair things and scooters then the next potential victim like me with my dog

Before I got a car I would ride my Boosted Board to work, did it for a good three years almost everyday. Plus I only cracked my head open riding it once! Good times

I went to LA last summer for the first time.. I saw those dang scooters EVERYWHERE Edit: it wasn’t as bad as in this video, but I still remember seeing them all over the place. Not sure I feel bad for Santa Monica though, you need to be rich to live in even a small place there.

I'm moving to NYC and I had been considering getting an e-scooter, but not anymore :) Thank you for saving me, Ordinary Things!

Get a bike, they’re nice (in some situations, although in those bicycle gutters be careful)

If these things are going to be used in any public place then they should carry a public liability insurance to cover any damage or injury that they may cause

Only 5 minutes in and this already looks to be more comprehensive and balanced than others I've seen on the topics

That's ordinary things for you

Quality takes time. Cannot rush perfection

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@AxxL 👀 who asked 👀

@AxxL who

Holy shit it's Captain Stede Bonnet! The main protagonist of HBOMax's latest hit series. Shame they couldn't secure the real Captain to play himself.

Most of my family lives downtown and we are close so when my wife and I visit I use these and I have to say, they are not vandalized and always parked in the right spot.