If every city had dedicated lanes and parking spots for scooters (like we do for cars) - electric scooters would be an obviously amazing compliment to city travel.
> scooters you’ll see pretty much all over the place in cities like Los Angeles.<p>have to laugh at this. The touristy areas are indeed packed with them. you can't even see the floor on 3rd street promenade because it is now covered in five companies' scooters. Maybe you see a couple in the silicon beach (which is not around snapchat house, and neither on the beach anymore). but actual places you'd call Los Angeles? none.
dockless bicycles have taken over San Jose. They are worse than scooters by far.<p>The only advantage I can see bicycles having over the scooters is not being "dead" due to battery issues, but plenty of other things can also take bicycles out of commission. They also take up more more room and can't be packed as close together.