Letter: Electric Scooters Aren’t Selfies, They’re Selfie Sticks
A reader traces the electric scooter craze to the growing influence of Chinese manufacturing on our global urban environment.
Unfortunately, the Electric Scooters Are Fantastic
Updated on June 7 at 9:52 a.m. ET
“The war is over and I have lost,” Robinson Meyer confessed on TheAtlantic.com last week. “I love Big Scooter.” But can the trendy new mode of transport overcome its essential dorkiness? And what does the boom portend for cities?
I enjoyed your recent article on the electric scooter phenomenon—I wanted to hate them, too, not least because they’ve been rolled out in the most stereotypically “techie” way, i.e., without considering the social impact they’d have on civic life. But the first time I rode one, I
