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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
No, he's right. On the river walk yesterday, I was having the very same thoughts. They are an eyesore, and everybody else is pretty much having to dodge around them because many people on the scooters really don't give a crap about anyone else around them. Fortunately, they really feel like a fad device for the most part, so probably by next spring we'll see far fewer of them.
That said, fining people for not leaving them back in appropriate spots is an impossibility. You could never prove that the last renter did that, or if some rando moved them just because.
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Well you kind of can. They're tracked with GPS and when I used them in Europe there were zones you couldn't just leave them. In those cases it made sense (they don't want a pile of scooters in front of a tourist site for example), and there were places you weren't allowed to ride them or leave them. Lime (in that case) made it clear that if you ditched the scooter there, you would be fined. They have your credit card, so it seems plausible to me.
And yeah, I thought that they were a total eyesore in Europe and unsurprisingly they are here as well. But they're also super fun and awesome.