Scooter geofencing speed-limits entire zones, not just danger spots

Shared scooter operators implement geofenced speed reductions and no-ride zones as blunt rectangles drawn on a map, throttling scooters to 5mph or killing power across entire neighborhoods rather than at specific hazard points. So what? A rider going down a perfectly safe, wide boulevard gets throttled to walking speed for 6 blocks because the geofence rectangle includes a hospital entrance 3 blocks away. So what? The trip that was supposed to take 8 minutes now takes 25 minutes, making the scooter slower than walking. So what? Riders learn which zones are 'broken' and avoid scooters entirely for trips that cross those areas, reducing the scooter's effective service area by 30-50% in some cities. So what? Reduced ridership means reduced revenue, which means operators pull out of cities, eliminating the transport option for everyone. This persists because geofence granularity is limited by GPS accuracy (3-5 meter error in urban canyons), and operators lack the engineering resources to create meter-level polygon geofences for every city. They use rectangles because it's operationally simpler, even though it destroys rider experience.