There were tons of scooters around when I lived in Chicago, and I had no problem with them. Here in rural KY, they're getting on my nerves. Setting aside why someone would bother with one outside of a congested urban area, my issue is the riders are slow. Not the scooters - modern scooters are more than able to keep up with traffic, even at highway speeds. But here, where the typical road speed is 45mph, I find myself having to go around someone on a scooter doing 30 or so.
I
wish we had some speed-freak scooter riders around here.