Good grief. Food trucks use public roads and sidewalks as their dining rooms. Half of the lanes on the roads are designated for buses I'll never ride. Homeless use sidewalks as encampments. And we're worried about scooters? How about in places like New York were the damned bike share racks take up half the sidewalk? How about graffiti "street artists" that paint their nonsense on privately owned buildings? They're displaying their "inventory" on property they don't own.
People seem to hate on scooters because it's "private" and people might be profiting somehow. It's trendy for the get-off-my-lawn crowd to hate on the Ubers, Birds, AirBnB and other similar businesses. "Hacker" used to mean people that didn't care much about the status quo, but here on "Hacker" news, it sounds like a bad threat on NextDoor or some kind of homeowners association meeting complaining about the mauve garage door on Mrs. Davis's house. Many of the people hating the scooters because they're "storing their inventory on public property," don't seem to have any problem Torrenting movies they didn't pay for or stealing other content they don't own. It seems the trend is "it's ok to steal from private companies because I shouldn't have to pay for stuff, but it's not ok for private companies to profit off of public infrastructure."
Yep, near downtown Denver there are signs about how after a certain date, any private property shall be removed from public walkways. This was targeting homeless camps. It should extend to scooters left littering the sidewalk too.
>Food trucks use public roads and sidewalks as their dining rooms.
Food trucks park in legal parking spaces or designated food truck areas - this is strictly controlled in most areas. Individuals use sidewalks as a dining room, since it’s legal to stand on a sidewalk and eat.
>How about in places like New York were the damned bike share racks take up half the sidewalk
How about it. Exact same problem? Can we do something about this too?
> How about graffiti "street artists" that paint their nonsense on privately owned buildings? They're displaying their "inventory" on property they don't own.
That’s not blocking a sidewalk or otherwise impairing use of a public asset. People can paint their private building however they please.
> Many of the people hating the scooters because they're "storing their inventory on public property," don't seem to have any problem Torrenting movies they didn't pay for or stealing other content they don't own.
That’s a stretch. I don’t see how use of a network or minor copyright infringement is related to leaving scooters on the sidewalk. Again, it doesn’t deprive others of the use of any public resource.
>People seem to hate on scooters because it's "private" and people might be profiting somehow.
No. Actually, people are complaining that these scooters are left everywhere, in the way littering the streets and sidewalks.
People seem to hate on scooters because it's "private" and people might be profiting somehow. It's trendy for the get-off-my-lawn crowd to hate on the Ubers, Birds, AirBnB and other similar businesses. "Hacker" used to mean people that didn't care much about the status quo, but here on "Hacker" news, it sounds like a bad threat on NextDoor or some kind of homeowners association meeting complaining about the mauve garage door on Mrs. Davis's house. Many of the people hating the scooters because they're "storing their inventory on public property," don't seem to have any problem Torrenting movies they didn't pay for or stealing other content they don't own. It seems the trend is "it's ok to steal from private companies because I shouldn't have to pay for stuff, but it's not ok for private companies to profit off of public infrastructure."