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Skateboards & Scooters: Being aware of dangers

Raggamuffin said:
Have they asked every person in Scotland though? Unlikely. Also I'd be interested to see what age demographic their sample was taken from.

In Cambridge they have e-scooter rentals where you can just take one, and leave it at designated places. They're all over the place. Same with electric bikes that look somewhat like a moped.

Truth be told, you don't have to learn the highway code to use a bicycle or e-scooter. Then again, judging by how a lot of people drive cars and vans - it doesn't seem to make much of a difference. There's plenty of people out there who are a hazard on the roads.

In all honesty I'm not sure if it's more dangerous to use an e-scooter or bike on a pavement or road. Mind you, I'm still of the opinion there's too many people in this world. So if e-scooters help thin the herd, I say let's go

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You could maybe ask the metro newspaper, they published the article.
Personally, in Edinburgh, I have nearly been hit by them on pavements several times. An elderly woman told me she was afraid of them on pavements. And I have saw them coming round blind corners. I feel they are serious accidents waiting to happen especially sadly to the elderly and disabled.
 
Last night two youths on e scooters nearly ran into me.
Then they proceeded on their scooters into the supermarket, the security guard told them off. I told the guard and he asked if I get the manager can you tell him, so I did. If I hadn't they could do the same potentially and someone less able like a more disabled or elderly person couldn't get out the way in time maybe, or a blind or deaf person.
 
I've just been reading through this thread for the first time and it's interesting. I hardly ever hear kids on skateboards any more, I heard one go down my street a couple of months ago and it was surprising because of it's rarity. But Australian cities do have a lot of skate parks.

The scooters are a different story, our government jumped on that pretty quickly. Wearing a helmet here is compulsory in all states except the Northern Territory. It's still compulsory for kids up there but if you're over 18 "Your head, your choice".

Scooters aren't allowed to ride on roads except for in designated bicycle lanes, and if it's motor can make it go faster than 25 kph then it loses it's classification as a child's toy. It's then classed as a motor vehicle and must be roadworthy, registered, licensed, insured, everything the same as for a motor bike.

We've been having a lot of trouble with rental escooters in cities and there's been quite a few serious accidents. The general public want them banned but the tourism board keeps arguing for keeping them.
 
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We've been having a lot of trouble with rental escooters in cities and there's been quite a few serious accidents. The general public want them banned but the tourism board keeps arguing for keeping them.
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Same thing here, in the beginning everyone thought rental electric scooters were great. There was few rules and scooters everywhere. Then people starting crashing and things just didn't go well. Emergency rooms filled up with people with broken teeth and faces and arms. And now you risk losing your drivers license for cars if you do something stupid on escooters. Can't have a beer and use a escooter, must have insurance to use them, it's such a hassel to use them now, so many rules, that it's easier to walk.
 
Forest Cat said:
There was few rules and scooters everywhere.
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Another big problem here is the uncaring attitudes of the young people that like riding them. When they've finished riding them they just dump them anywhere and don't care if the scooter falls over. This is a real hazard for blind people, I rarely go in to the city but the last 2 times I've had to help a blind person by picking the scooter up and moving it out of their way.

I have no problem with people riding their own scooters but I want to see the rental jobs banned.
 
I never owned skates or a skate board. My bicycle was fun though.
 
Gerald Wilgus said:
On any motorized two-wheel thing, stability is a function of wheel size and weight. Add to that, people not practicing proper safety procedure, and I look upon them as mobile hazards. As it was, riding my Concours, I looked upon any driver on the road as out to kill me and rode accordingly. I strongly doubt that scooter users, especially casual ones, have good situational awareness from lots of travel in various conditions.
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Sheer wheel size and weight are absolutely no guarantee of stability. A normal bicycle can be ridden "no hands" and will even coast straight downhill without a rider. How it does that was a mystery for well over a century, but it is mostly about geometry and weight distribution. Even gyroscopic effects are not essential. Many recumbent bikes were rideable, but quite unstable on their own. Scooters share that character. Motorization has nothing to do with it either.
 
Aspergers_Aspie said:
What do people think about Patrick Harvie MSP please? Personally I think an MSP should be a good positive role modelLink to story
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I suppose that primarily depends on one's stance on environmentalism in general. Some people have "knee-jerk reactions" to such personalities, much like activist Greta Thunberg.
 
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