According to the City of Paris, there are 15,000 free-floating vehicles of all forms and shapes in the city, from electric scooters to fluorescent bikes and motorcycle-like scooters. And the City of Paris announced today that companies that operate free-floating services will have to pay a tax depending on the size of their fleet. If […]
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Shared scooters barely last a month, report says. But that could change.
It’s tough out there for an e-scooter.
The battery-powered vehicles used by most scooter-sharing companies weren’t intended for such heavy use. The first generation of shared scooters were mainly from Xioami, and not made with the type of usage scoot…
Lime scooter bug sees riders injured thanks to ‘sudden excessive braking’
If there’s one thing you don’t want while you’re cruising downhill on a scooter, it’s sudden braking.
Lime has rolled out firmware updates after the detection of a bug within its fleet of electric scooters, which could “under rare circumstances could cause sudden excessive braking.”
According to a company blog post, Lime commissioned “extensive analysis” of the problem by its internal team and other experts, and found that although the issue was rare, it was indeed happening.
“We diagnosed the issue in a laboratory environment and determined that in very rare cases — usually riding downhill at top speed while hitting a pothole or other obstacle — excessive brake force on the front wheel can occur, resulting in a scooter stopping unexpectedly,” read its statement, published Feb. 23. Read more…
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View More Startups Weekly: Spotify gets acquisitive and Instacart screws upE-scooter injuries keep piling up
E-scooters can cause way more than a few scrapes and bruises.
A UC Los Angeles study from last month looked at two Southern California hospitals and the number of electric scooter injuries reported there for about a year. It totaled 250 people sent to the ER and 100 with head injuries. Now Consumer Reports has found throughout the country more than 1,500 scooter-related injuries that can be blamed on the two-wheeled vehicles.
In a report released this week looking at e-scooter crashes since the end of 2017 when the motorized scooters started arriving en masse, CR found 1,545 patients treated for scooter-related injuries. This number was determined by contacting 110 hospitals and five transportation agencies. Sixty medical centers and other police, city, and transportation agencies responded. All cities had a major e-scooter-sharing company like Lime or Bird introduced to the area in the past year. Read more…
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Micromobility startup Lime, the company that operates shared electric scooters and bikes, has brought on its first chief marketing officer and appointed its first chief technology officer. Duke Stump, now CMO at Lime, is joining the company from Lululemon, where he served as EVP of Brand and Community. Li Fan, who served as Lime’s head of […]
View More Lime beefs up its executive team with a CTO and CMOYup, e-scooters are dangerous, study confirms – especially since nobody wears helmets
A new study tracking injuries from riding e-scooters confirms what we all knew: electric scooters can be dangerous as hell.
Also, nobody wears helmets. And these vehicles go as fast as 15 mph.
A study published in the JAMA (Journal of th…
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