The scooter would be the ideal means of transport for quick, easy, cheap and green travel, but what “humiliates” it is the thoughtless use of men

La gentle mobility it's a beautiful thing: it's an intelligent innovation which, over short and very short distances, allows citizens to arrive punctually, without risking hysterics, and, sometimes, even enjoying the breeze.
It is an idea that, if applied with the right criteria, can really revolutionize life in the metropolis, in conclusion.
But, for every apparently perfect innovation, there is always a gabola, hidden around the corner: it is a bit the moral of this column, to try to demonstrate that innovating, in itself, is a neutral action.
It depends on who and how to make this neutral action profitable or harmful.
Let's take the electric scooter, which, from the countries of central Europe, has gradually taken hold everywhere, to the point of becoming the undisputed protagonist of the urban road system in many cities.
The idea itself is very valid: a means of locomotion that is slow but not too much, agile, a zero environmental impact, easily usable and abandonable, thanks to its App and geolocation system.
Squaring the circle, apparently. As always, however, if you set the technology, even the best, in the wrong hands, you risk producing disasters, rather than innovations.

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A suburban bully will always remain so, standing on two wheels as well as sitting between four

Thus, if you take a bully from the suburbs, one of those with the air of a racketeer and a two kilo gold chain, and place him on a scooter, you can rest assured that the bully will go around exactly as if he were driving a Lamborghini, in due proportion.
Instead of parking the custom-built car in the disabled space, it will travel on the sidewalks at full speed, without respecting traffic lights and stop signs.
He will, because it is in his nature to be a bumpkin and a braggart, regardless of the instrument of his bluster.
In short, if you take a chimpanzee and put it at the controls of the Shuttle, it will hardly reach orbit, except, perhaps, in the case of a Pavlovian learning by the Quadrumana.
But Ivan Petrovich Pavlov had not contemplated the case ofrude human, among the possible objects of his scientific investigations.
An animal is an animal: there are more idiotic and more intelligent ones, but none of them is arrogant in their stupidity.
The human being is capable of breaking the rules for the sole pleasure of affirming his own miserable ego: to demonstrate, it is not clear to whom, that he is smarter than the others.
Thus, if a brilliant thinker invents a truly innovative and very useful gimmick for the common good and this gimmick ends up in the hands of the moron on duty, rest assured that it will turn into a weapon, a threat or, at least, a nuisance .

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It is in the family and in the school that people fight to innovate, against misoneism and idiocy

The moral of this spiel is simple: it is not enough to innovate in the field of instruments.
We also need to innovate in that of those who use them. People must be educated and, often, re-educated to positive behaviors for the community: otherwise it is useless to invent ingenious solutions that do not solve.
In fact, our cities are full of scooters parked where they shouldn't, abandoned on the sidewalks, driven by exuberant Africans who think that every alleyway is the Paris-Dakar: and it certainly isn't the fault of the guilty scooters. The fault lies with the beasts that mount us.

It is useless to fill neighborhoods with flowerbeds and parks, if, then, people use them as garbage dumps or as drug dealing branches. You can see that the only solution can be to re-educate, if necessary with slaps, the reprobates to more civilized behavior: it is certainly not to close the parks and cement the flowerbeds. And it is like this in all fields in which one tries to innovate: innovation always has at least two enemies.
The first is misoneism, which hovers and thrives in our society. But the second, far more widespread and difficult to eradicate, is idiocy. And everything, as always, starts in family and school. That's where the real battle of innovation is fought.