Bird And Lime Scooters Sent 249 People In Los Angeles To The ER Last Year

ronjor · Jan 25, 2019

Katie Notopoulos Posted on January 25, 2019

Urgent care and ERs were seeing patients with injuries from Bird and Lime scooters, but no one knew just how common it was — until now.
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ronjor · Feb 6, 2019

Investigation finds e-scooters a cause of 1,500+ accidents

Kate Clark @kateclarktweets 06 Feb 2019
The news comes shortly after UCLA published a study finding that 249 people required medical care following scooter accidents, with one-third of that group arriving at the hospital in an ambulance.
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ronjor · Feb 23, 2019

Lime Scooter Software Glitch Causes Random Braking, Dozens Of Rider Injuries

Biz Carson Feb 22, 2019
A software error sent Lime scooter riders flying after a glitch caused the scooters' front wheels to lock up randomly mid-ride. The sudden braking caused at least 30 injuries in 155 known incidents, Lime told Auckland, New Zealand officials
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guest · Feb 23, 2019

ronjor said: ↑

Lime Scooter Software Glitch Causes Random Braking, Dozens Of Rider Injuries
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Updated article:

(Update: On February 23, 2019 at 2:00 p.m. ET, Lime confirmed the error and said the excessive braking problem usually occurred when riders were going downhill at high speeds and hit a pothole or other obstacle in the road. The company confirmed to Forbes that the error was more widespread than just New Zealand and Switzerland, and it is rolling out an update to its scooters globally. Lime warned riders to use extra caution over the next few days following the update.)
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ronjor · Feb 24, 2019

San Diego startup impounds wayward e-scooters

By Dennis Romero Feb. 23, 2019
The fresh presence of tens of thousands of dockless scooters for rent in San Diego over the last year has driven some locals absolutely loco. Alexander Curtis, general manager of Woody's, says e-scooter users "drop them off right in front," where travelers and the elderly alike trip over the devices.
Most e-scooter companies aren't paying up to retrieve their property, say the owners of ScootScoop.
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ronjor · Mar 8, 2019

The CDC is studying the rise in e-scooter injuries for the first time as start-ups expand to more cities

Yasmin Khorram 08 Mar 2019
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has launched the first-ever study of electric scooter accidents at the request of Austin Public Health and the Austin Transportation Department.
So far, data has shown many accidents don't involve other vehicles and most riders involved in accidents weren't wearing helmets at the time.
E-scooter companies like Bird and Lime say they support the CDC study.
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ronjor · Mar 23, 2019

The scooter wars are actually a century old

By Adele Peters 03.23.19
In the 1910s, there was a boom in scooter riding–and very familiar complaints about scooter behavior in cities–until cars pushed the devices off the streets.
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sdmod · Mar 23, 2019

Electric scooters are now disrupting wrists, elbows and heads

An old page November 28, 2018 but still interesting.

ronjor · Mar 24, 2019

The majority of scooters in LA are going to share your location with the city

by Alfred Ng March 22, 2019
For every three scooters that don’t share GPS data, 10 will.
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ronjor · Apr 2, 2019

Woman Carried Away on Stretcher Minutes Into Launch of E-Scooter Pilot Program

Catie Keck 02 Apr 2019
Shortly into the launch of the first scooter pilot program in the state of Massachusetts, one woman reportedly met the street in an accident that resulted in an ambulance ride and multiple stitches.
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ronjor · Apr 3, 2019

Paris to fine people riding electric scooters on sidewalks

Reporting by Geert De Clercq and Simon Carraud; Editing by Alison Williams April 3, 2019
Nine companies - including California-based market leaders Lime and Bird - operate some 15,000 electric scooters Paris and the city estimates there could be 40,000 by year-end. Brands such as Bolt, Wind and Voi have also put hundreds of scooters on Paris roads.
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ronjor · Apr 17, 2019

Shared electric scooters surge, overtaking docked bikes

Cathy Bussewitz, Ap Business Writer Wednesday, April 17, 2019
NEW YORK (AP) — Electric scooters are overtaking station-based bicycles as the most popular form of shared transportation outside transit and cars in the U.S.
Riders took 38.5 million trips on shared electric scooters in 2018, eclipsing the 36.5 million trips on shared, docked bicycles, according to a report released Wednesday by the National Association of City Transportation Officials.
This as scooter companies face challenges from every direction, including vandalism, theft, rider injuries, intense competition and aggressive regulations in cities across the country.
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hawki · Apr 24, 2019

"Lime Scooters Hacked to Say Sexual Things to Riders in Australia

At least eight Lime e-scooters have been pulled from the streets of Brisbane, Australia this week after they were hacked to say sexual and otherwise offensive things. Lime calls the hack 'disappointing.'..."

https://gizmodo.com/lime-scooters-hacked-to-say-sexual-things-to-riders-in-1834264534

ronjor · May 1, 2019

CDC says there’s an epidemic of e-scooter injuries that could easily be prevented

Yasmin Khorram 01 May 2019
The CDC has found that head injuries topped the list of accident-related incidents involving e-scooters at 45%. The study determined that many e-scooter injuries could have been prevented if riders wore helmets and were more careful around cars, according to summary of the study released on Wednesday.
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ronjor · May 6, 2019

Volkswagen teams up with China's NIU to make e-scooters: Die Welt

May 6, 2019
BERLIN (Reuters) The companies will jointly build the Streetmate model, which has a top speed of 45 kilometers (28 miles) an hour and a range of 60 kilometres, the report said.
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ronjor · May 22, 2019

Voom targets escooter boom with on-demand insurance for per-trip coverage

Paul Sawers@psawers May 22, 2019 4:00 AM
With 2019 now well underway, the escooter hype-train trundles on with even more investments being made. The rise in urban micro-mobility transport isn’t limited to scooters, though — everything from motorized skateboards to foldable electric bikes are also firmly on the agenda. While the underlying intention of these new transport platforms is to get people onto cleaner modes of transport (and make money), it has also led to a reported rise in accidents — Paris recently banned escooters from sidewalks for this reason.
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hawki · Jun 3, 2019

The CEO of pogo stick-sharing startup Cangoroo insists his company isn't a hoax

"Sweden-based startup Cangoroo is planning to “deploy hundreds of pogo sticks” to “select cities” in the U.S. and elsewhere...

Much like companies behind the piles of dockless scooters now littering the country, Cangoroo has an app that allows users to unlock and rent pogo sticks that previous riders have left laying around. They call this a “micro-mobility” service. Cangoroo’s website currently advertises going rates of $1 to unlock one of its pogo sticks and and 30 cents a minute after that..."

https://gizmodo.com/nice-bones-you-got-there-shame-if-a-startup-was-to-sta-1835188719

ronjor · Jun 4, 2019

Bird is launching an electric moped this summer

Up to 50 miles per charge, but no word on pricing, or top speed
By Sean O'Kane@sokane1 Jun 4, 2019
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JRViejo · Jun 4, 2019

Bird is about to launch a new way to get seriously injured. It is similar to the current means the company provides for riders to get seriously injured, except with the new vehicle, riders can get seriously injured with their friends.
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Bird Announces Electric Moped That Can Injure Two Riders at the Same Time by Jennings Brown.

ronjor · Jun 6, 2019

Paris clamps down on scooter startups

Romain Dillet@romaindillet 06 June 2019
The City of Paris has had enough. There are currently 12 (yes, twelve) scooter startups in Paris. As reported by Le Monde, Mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo announced in a press conference a series of restrictions to regulate the space.
First, there are just too many scooter startups — Bird, Bolt, Bolt by Usain Bolt, Circ, Dott, Hive, Jump, Lime, Tier, Voi, Ufo and Wind. They all have funny-sounding names and there are even two different companies with the same name (Bolt).
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ronjor · Jun 12, 2019

Uber’s new shared scooter is bigger, tougher, and stops faster

By Sean O'Kane@sokane1 Jun 12, 2019
Coming to the US later this month
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guest · Jun 23, 2019

Nashville bans electric scooters over public safety risks following death
June 22, 2019
https://www.slashgear.com/nashville-bans-electric-scooters-over-public-safety-risks-death-22581391/

Because these scooters are available nearby and to rent whenever needed, there’s a notable lack of protective gear among e-scooter customers. This, combined with the inherent safety risks of using a small electric scooter on a road with cars and sidewalks with people, has resulted in a number of serious injuries, including broken bones.

In late May, Nashville mayor David Briley alerted e-scooter operators in the city to a number of concerns, among them being ‘visual clutter, improper riding, parking violations, and poor rider education.’ The companies were asked to propose scooter regulation amendments within 30 days that would address the issues.

Today, I notified Nashville's seven scooter companies of my decision to end the pilot period and ban e-scooters from our streets. [...] June 21, 2019
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ronjor · Jun 25, 2019

These Cities Will Track Scooters to Get a Handle on Regulation

Aarian Marshall 06.25.19
It’s moving day for a controversial data standard that has pitted cities against some private transportation companies, like Uber and Lyft, that want to operate on their streets. On Tuesday, 15 cities, including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami, San Francisco, and Bogota, Colombia, said they’ve created a nonprofit called the Open Mobility Foundation, devoted to collecting, maintaining, and standardizing information about where shared vehicles—including cars, scooters, jet packs, and bicycles—are parked.
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guest · Jul 2, 2019

California, Other States Take on E-Scooter Regulations
July 2, 2019
https://www.govtech.com/transportation/California-Other-States-Take-on-E-Scooter-Regulations.html

Pushback from a number of large cities in California is shaping a proposed state law meant to regulate bike-share and e-scooter operations.
“The micro-mobility industry is so new that there are no established best practices for regulation. [...]"

“We agree with aggregators that privacy is an important consideration and that we agree more can be done to protect this data,” said Henderson of Ride Report. “But we do not think that putting aggregation solely in the hands of the operator is something that cities are going to trust. [...]"
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guest · Jul 3, 2019

Paris’ electric scooter experiment demonstrates dangers of failing to regulate tech
July 3, 2019
https://venturebeat.com/2019/07/03/...nstrates-dangers-of-failing-to-regulate-tech/

If you want to see an example of how failing to properly regulate a new technology can be bad for companies, users, and communities, look no further than Paris.
With many having little experience in using the devices, and even less awareness of the rules about where they could and could not be ridden, the inevitable accidents and anger began building into a backlash

At one point, 12 scooter companies were operating in the city.
In that context, the scooter chaos seemed to local residents like one more example of how Silicon Valley’s culture is willing to stampede over the concerns of others in the race to win at any cost.
Silicon Valley’s culture has long taken a binary view of regulation: All government rules are bad and anti-innovation.
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