All the more reason these electric scooters should be parked on the street, ideally displacing car parking. If the law doesn’t permit that, the law should change.

In a way, it would be a democratic way to show how public space should be allocated. If a place has more app-based electric scooters than cars parked beside the curb, then perhaps the local council should take the hint and build infrastructure to better accommodate those users. If there aren’t many scooters, then no harm no fowl.