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HenryJLittlefinger posted:A friend of mine hit an uncovered water valve hole in the street on one of those scooters. She broke everything in her jaw, separated both tmj, broke a bunch of teeth, maybe even her palate, and at least one orbit. Oh and got a tbi or course. Here in Melbourne Australia the city council decided to run a 12 month trial with those electric scooters (which just got extended another 6 months) to see whether their widespread use would be feasible The introduced guidelines had these restrictions: quote:E-scooter riders cannot: .... but I see people breaking those rules all the time: riding on crowded footpaths, carrying one or more passengers with them, riding through traffic on busy roads, etc etc.. There's apparently been a spike in accidents of hospitalizations so there must have been a whole lot of gnarly accidents https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaLsFljA_gc
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Here in Melbourne Australia the city council decided to run a 12 month trial with those electric scooters (which just got extended another 6 months) to see whether their widespread use would be feasible I wouldn't want to walk on a sidewalk next to a road with a higher than 60km/hr speed limit let alone be on it with a scooter or bike unless we're talking about one with like zero cars. The noise alone is unpleasant
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PurpleXVI posted:https://twitter.com/antumbral/status/1738253337659871239?s=20 Holy gently caress.  Companies have been quietly killing lootboxes already in favour of battlepasses, because people were catching on to them being gambling targeted to minors, but I wasn't expecting China to just burn the whole thing down completely  .loving hilarious with how much game companies have been trying to break into the Chinese market.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Here in Melbourne Australia the city council decided to run a 12 month trial with those electric scooters (which just got extended another 6 months) to see whether their widespread use would be feasible Those rental scooters are a loving scourge, pray that they won't extend the license after the trial period.
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people who have never nor would ever ride a bike at those speeds in an urban environment or otherwise thinking they just "got it" as soon as they step on is baffling and fascinating as a phenomenon
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KoRMaK posted:people who have never nor would ever ride a bike at those speeds in an urban environment or otherwise thinking they just "got it" as soon as they step on is baffling and fascinating as a phenomenon I've seen footage of people riding them on highways with 100km/h speed limits, they step on and suddenly turn into Easy Rider
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Reminds me of when I merged onto the expressway inner loop and there was a lady in a motorized wheelchair on the shoulder. She must have had a hell of a time on the onramp.
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Fishstick posted:From what I've read about cholla cactuses, the rest of that person's entire day is going to be tweezers and pain Usually the spines like to stay connected to the pad, so you can sometimes get most of it off with a good steel comb (desert life pro tip) Probably not the case when crashing into them at high speed!
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If they got them off the chollas would probably chase the car down and stick themselves back on
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Karate Bastard posted:There were allegations of political dissidents in the microtransactions. Xi was worried there were Uyghurs hiding in lootboxes.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:I've seen footage of people riding them on highways with 100km/h speed limits, they step on and suddenly turn into Easy Rider I have supermaned myself using a normal kick bike. When your tiny front wheel hits poo poo, like a gravel stone, the board turns into a catapult loving you right off, while the handlebar turns into a tow hitch pulling yo face to the deck, making you look super silly and in need of medical attention. Genius contraption really.
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I expected this to be way worse, she handled that pretty well
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Mauser posted:I wouldn't want to walk on a sidewalk next to a road with a higher than 60km/hr speed limit let alone be on it with a scooter or bike unless we're talking about one with like zero cars. The noise alone is unpleasant my city did the same temporary trial process with similar rules, and with the same results. Ended up keeping them as they are very popular. Now the scooters have a bunch of stickers about not riding on sidewalks/footpaths, and the apps remind you every trip and you have to acknowledge it. things improved behavior wise, but they still cause a lot of injuries
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The most fascinating part about those bike/scooter rentals is how often people throw them into a body of water
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on a trip to La Jolla i experienced some of the most aggressive nimby powered geo fencing on those things when i was riding in the bike lane in a neighborhood back to my motel. i wasn't allowed to ride in the street of the nice, virtually carless neighborhood i had to go get on the main drag. terrible vibe. the bike rental didn't have geo fencing
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Holy gently caress. What really blows my mind is that those laws demonstrate a thorough understanding of exactly how those games work. That’s not a thing elsewhere, it’s taken like a decade for politicians to figure out what lootboxes are.
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Dango Bango posted:The most fascinating part about those bike/scooter rentals is how often people throw them into a body of water Here are some scooters in Minneapolis
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Here in Melbourne Australia the city council decided to run a 12 month trial with those electric scooters (which just got extended another 6 months) to see whether their widespread use would be feasible Doctors say they are clogging up hospitals https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12...m_content=other
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Those scooters just got discontinued in the city where I live. They were really cool, but people just chuck them into creeks or leave them on the freeway and intentionally dumb poo poo.
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KoRMaK posted:people who have never nor would ever ride a bike at those speeds in an urban environment or otherwise thinking they just "got it" as soon as they step on is baffling and fascinating as a phenomenon There's a guy near me who rides a one-wheel at ~40mph, he's at least in full motorcycle gear & helmet.
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The scooters where getting dumped everywhere near me until they started giving people money back if they parked them in designated areas.
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What is the point of dumping them? I never understood that.
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dialhforhero posted:What is the point of dumping them? I never understood that. Vandalism in the guise of civial disobedience.
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Aramoro posted:civil disobedience in the guise of vandalism
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dialhforhero posted:What is the point of dumping them? I never understood that. It’s a cheap and legal thrill.
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Xun posted:I haven't played in a long long time and I don't remember it being too bad. Has stuff changed significantly? I haven't touched it since 2018. It's full of deliberately tedious grind, and things like limited inventory and trades per day and the need to buy space dog food for your space dog, (what kind of monster are you if you let your space dog starve) that you need to pay real money for. Snowglobe of Doom posted:Here in Melbourne Australia the city council decided to run a 12 month trial with those electric scooters (which just got extended another 6 months) to see whether their widespread use would be feasible
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dialhforhero posted:What is the point of dumping them? I never understood that. People object to local governments giving tech companies license to put the things everywhere, using public space and making footpaths more annoying. Being frustrated and with no meaningful power to change things, they do stuff like this. Melbourne had a city run bike program with dedicated parking places and not many of them got chucked in the Yarra. The scheme failed because the bikes were poo poo house and not electric, people only seem to want to use e-vehicles.
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loving scooters. The local crowd inflicting them on us puts them stacked up on the footpath after charging, rendering it unusable. Since I don't have a handy river I've taken to bringing sidecutters and cutting the main cable to the throttle on them. They've also gotten in trouble for leaving them in bike lanes, across driveways, in disabled parks so I don't feel bad in the slightest. Typical techbro attitude of leaving their mess for everyone else to deal with.
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HungryMedusa posted:Here are some scooters in Minneapolis Ah, the piss rivers of Minneapolis.
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There was a article several years back about how the bay area was having a massive spike in head injuries due to e-scooters, including the industry advocate they interviewed going "they're perfectly safe!" and then immediately recounting a story where he'd seen a guy try to stack milk crates on one as a seat and then speed off and crash into the side of a parked car.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:I've seen footage of people riding them on highways with 100km/h speed limits, they step on and suddenly turn into Easy Rider Hell yeah bro take the lane  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffR7qcsNTic I've never seen a scooter in the states that had an included helmet, probably because they know they'd just be immediately stolen if they tried. e: In the late 90s my college tried implementing a bike share program where they just scattered yellow bikes around campus for anyone to use. I remember one got about 8ft up in a tree. Takes No Damage has a new favorite as of 23:49 on Dec 23, 2023 |
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I live in an area where scooters are used often and I have never personally seen any issue with them. They are a net positive where I am and I have never heard otherwise except my firefighter friend who tells us just how nasty the accidents get. When I don’t feel like riding my bike I use them and they are nice and cheap and convenient. Better than using an Uber/Lyft where I am for many areas due to proximity. I o ow that doesn’t mean they are fine. Just never seen and issue with them nor ever heard many complaints.
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dialhforhero posted:I live in an area where scooters are used often and I have never personally seen any issue with them. They are a net positive where I am and I have never heard otherwise except my firefighter friend who tells us just how nasty the accidents get. So they're fine as long as you don't witness the wrecks? Do you have actual statistics or do you just not care about other people?
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:
We have them in Brisbane. I was chatting with a woman in her 60's in a cafe who's ankle was shattered when someone rode into them. I intentionally don't move out of the way when a rider rings the bell because gently caress 'em, pedestrians have right of way on foot paths.
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I can't loving stand the "ding ding! get out of the way, pedestrians!" I'm interested to hear that they have been getting injured. For my part, I actually haven't seen anyone wreck. And to be honest, the being obnoxious on footpaths, blowing through red lights and parking in the way is in the minority. It does fascinate me that nearly none of them wear helmets, though, considering that just about all bicyclists do. (The only exception seems to be a handful wizened old white guys who seem to have a general petulant "you can't tell ME what to do!" attitude in general)
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Atticus_1354 posted:So they're fine as long as you don't witness the wrecks? Do you have actual statistics or do you just not care about other people? I'm fine with scooter riders without helmets hurting themselves. I bet the vast majority of injuries don't involve another party.
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I like renting scooters because it's a cheap and fast way of getting from A to B.
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I will never fault scooter or bike riders who use the sidewalk as long as they always give right of way to pedestrians when their only other option is to be on the compete deathtrap that is an american street
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Dango Bango posted:The most fascinating part about those bike/scooter rentals is how often people throw them into a body of water they're basically self-propelled car batteries
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It reminds me of a joke about how to solve both global warming and the lack of donation organs. 1) Abolish all helmet laws. 2) Free motorcycles for everyone.
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