>>1338141>The scooter-share startups are littering the streets of some cities with reasonably okay ones. I have one (pic related, Ninebot ES1/ES2. Not stolen, but fucking bought new). They are not OK.
There are a lot of problems with them
>low quality materials (pic related is steel, not aluminum)>poor engineering (most scooters end up ripping three screws from aluminium threads, which support fucking 100 kilos (rated), on 300 km). Aluminium threads in high-load structure, genius)>annoying motor controller (release throttle - it start braking. Need to kick in order to accelerate, which is extremely dangerous with such tiny wheels, motor will get disabled on pot hole, and will not provide torque, which will make front wheel stop, which will make rider become airborne. Annoying speed limiter which will not allow scooter even to accelerate by itself beyond limit)>front suspension travel is too short>annoying 160 degree steering limiter. >bluetooth botnet (you must have compatible phone, and shit will not work on any phone, because chinks are so fucking concerned about their bloatware, they are using SecNeo obfuscation)I had E-TWOW before, it had some issues like
>on ~1000 km folding axle will crack. It is not dangerous, but it might crack aluminium>everything has fuckton of play>screws unscrew inside speedometer, shorting 5V to whatever battery voltage, burning speedometer. (thankfully, ECU they use has protection against this)>battery gets wet and diesIs it that difficult to design a scooter? I mean engineer, I don't need "muh clean looks" sort of thing.
>You can buy a nice one for basically nothing and get a new controller box from China for basically nothing, totally legallyNinebot ECUs are expensive, actually. I ended up replacing that annoying piece of shit with generic ECU, which is not ideal for this motor, but it works.
Well... In my case it had some issues like releasing magic smoke for no reason, but that is my fault, and it kept working.
