[r9etb]

Today where I live it was drizzing all day and about 40 degrees

Yup. And where I live, temps were in the single digits last weekend. Plus, I have three kids and a wife. I can just see us trailing along like a herd of ducks on our scooters.

Like it or not, cities are always going to need car-sized streets, because there are plenty of uses for cars and trucks, and only one use for a scooter.

[wildandcrazyrussian]

I have three kids and a wife. I can just see us trailing along like a herd of ducks on our scooters.
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Pretty funny!

Actually, I was more excited about his other invention which makes steps and other obstacles accessible to handicapped people. I could definitely see all sorts of advantages to supplying abunch of those at the street sides of many buildings INSTEAD OF spending tens of billions of dollars buuilding ramps. Or the super-expensive "kneeler" buses which I think are used somewhere in Florida which cost about $100,000 more than a regular bus, just so a guy in a wheelchair can roll in. Obviously it would have been cheaper to buy every handicapped a free taxi ride for the rest of their lives.

[SauronOfMordor]

Like it or not, cities are always going to need car-sized streets, because there are plenty of uses for cars and trucks, and only one use for a scooter.

Very narrow niche:

• City needs to have high density (need to be able to get from home to work or whatever without having to cover too many miles)
• City needs to have warm, dry weather for most of the year (If it's sleeting, I WILL be using my car)
• City needs to be low-crime (if the thing is worth $3,000, then you WILL be mugged for it)

How many places meet the above criteria?