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Why are cars allowed to litter the public roads and park all over the place, taking up a massive amount of space with mostly empty seats and driven around less than 10% of the time?

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Cars are parked in designated areas in an organized matter and get ticketed when they obstruct pedestrian traffic.

Also, your comment is a logical fallacy.

As cars gained mainstream adoption, governments passed legislation regulating their use in the way you described. I'm sure scooters will follow a similar trajectory; we're just waiting for legislation to catch up.

It's not littering since local statues have rules about parking. FYI, in some areas, parking is illegal, and in most areas leaving your car in a spot for too long will allow the city to tow it.

Since the majority of places don't have statues for scooters, the default actually is littering, it's no different than dumping anything else on the sidewalk.

Scooters are definitively vehicles. What would governments do if people just started parking bikes and scooters in free full-size car parking spaces :)

Scooters aren't vehicles licensed for public roads. So it will probably still be littering, of public roads and parking spaces this time.

But you're supposed to ride them in the roads in most cities.

Yeah, but those statutes came after cars were popular. Early on, I bet people were parking all over the place and it was people complaining about it that lead to those rules being put in place.

Because I pay taxes + reg and crap to the DMV yearly to allow it to be on public roads?

>Why are cars allowed to litter the public roads and park all over the place, taking up a massive amount of space with mostly empty seats and driven around less than 10% of the time?

Because car owners pay extra in taxes, specifically to cover the additional costs to society.

The taxes are a drop in the bucket compared to the wasted space, pollution, and clutter.

Yup, especially when any attempt to raise gas taxes is met with hostility by the voters.

We massively subsidize drivers in this country. It's a natural consequence of people voting for their own short-term self-interests.

https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2015/05/debunking-the...

The taxes are a drop in the bucket compared to just the road costs alone (ignoring the other societal downsides).

Because the law says they are. You don't like it, vote.

This but unironically

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