Maria Konnikova once pointed out that "precedence-based reasoning is everywhere in life. ... We think we should earn more than a new hire; we believe that seniority in a group should be respected, and get mad when our status is usurped by an upstart. So it goes when it comes to the feeling of owning the road: precedence comes first." At bottom, the case against Bird is that other methods of transportation got there first, and electric scooters fit uneasily into the system built for them.

Source: Los Angeles Times February 27, 2018 12:00 UTC