Infinite Machine raises $9M to convince Americans to buy scooters

https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/29/infinite-machine-raises-9m-a16z-led-round-to-convince-americans-to-buy-scooters/

I don't see how they're going to convince people to buy their scooters when they're over triple the price of a Honda Metropolitan...

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Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 1y

So when your cybertruck breaks down you can just whip out the cyberscooter to go get help.

jam12705@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y (2 replies)

1987 me would have loved the look of these things....

partial_accumen@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y (1 reply)

If they made a Robocop 4 movie in the 80s, Robocop would be riding one of these in the opening scene.

jam12705@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

Lol, I can see him scooting up to the action too.

athairmor@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y

Do Millennial designers think that low polygon counts will make things faster in the real world, too?

Are they trying to make their parents’ vision of the future come true?

I don’t get it.

Lysergid@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I like cyberpunk esthetics and all but this looks unfinished and ugly

JigglySackles@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

It looks like the cybertruck. It's fucking awful like it too. Why aren't people doing good cyberpunk design instead of this "babys-first-cyberpunk" garbage?

Codilingus@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 1y

America seems like the worst place for scooters? Most cities are built around car usage, long distances, and going fast. A scooter would be the last thing I'd ever consider since i have to do an amount of freeway driving.

dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y (1 reply)

55 MPH top speed. 60 mile city range...

$10,000.

No thanks. Even a Surron L1E has the same performance and is a third of the price, and you'll look considerably less stupid riding it. And you can do wheelies. For $10k you could buy one of those and enough upgrade parts to rice it out to the point that it'll give some medium displacement combustion bikes a run for their money.

SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 1y

And for the same money you could buy either a new middleweight sportbike that'll do 130+, or you could buy a few years old literbike that will easily triple the speed of this scooter.

Or, you could pay 1/5 of this price to get an e-scooter (of the stand-up variety) and get the same performance with a lower weight and smaller size.