Given the 5 or 6 brands of (mutually incompatible) scooters littering Bay area streets right now this is not such a terrible idea. They weren't declared a public nuisance by heartless bureaucrats (indeed this didn't happen at al where I live): they just started taking up street space and getting in the way of disabled people, people with kids, and anyone needing to push a cart on a sidewalk. I've lost count of the times I've had to move one or more of the things out of the way to get where I was going, where's my check?