Appears to be AI slop. I don’t know why the author attempts to put cars in the same class as a bike, either. Bikes and scooters occupy the same space, both in terms of where they are expected to be found (and not) and how drivers and pedestrians alike might perceive them. You wouldn’t run on the highway. You wouldn’t drive on the sidewalk.

The car is fine if you drive it like a car. A bike is fine if you ride it like a bike. What’s lazy about an electric scooter in the bike lane is both physical and mental, and cyclists are bothered by the latter. Because scooters accelerate quickly, are heavy, and usually operated at speeds in excess of bicycles, cyclists perceive them more like cars driving in the bike lane. They exist in a different category altogether, one that isn’t bikes or cars.