Its City scooter (not an e-scooter but foot-powered) is made by scooter company Micro —the same Swiss company Mercedes is partnering with on its scooter.
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You can't ride a scooter on the pavement and scooter operators have to pay €50 per scooter per year.
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For scooter companies, they'll pay €50 per scooter per year.
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Many scooter companies use the exact same model of scooter.
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Despite its name, the e-tron scooter is more of a cross between a skateboard and a scooter than a traditional electric scooter.
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The scooter is being developed in partnership with scooter manufacturer Micro.
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Scooter Map arrived in 2019 with all that scooter data aggregated.
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Spin pays $5 per scooter, Bird pays between $5 to $25 per scooter charged, depending on how hard it is to find the scooter.
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Lyft is introducing its first scooter model built specifically for scooter sharing.
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LimeBike has designed its own scooter, while Waybots uses a scooter by Minimotors.
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The T60 is a combination robot-and-scooter that's intended for scooter shares.
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Made with Chinese scooter company Okai, the new scooter moves away from the lighter, sleeker frame of Bird's previous scooter, the modified Xiaomi Mi, and Segway models.
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Instead of a scooter share, Bird is offering a personal e-scooter monthly lease.
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Skip is one of two scooter companies with permits for San Francisco scooter rentals.
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The "scooter wars" are raging in San Francisco (and other cities), but one scooter is emerging victorious: the Xiaomi Mi electric scooter, used by several of the startups.
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Once SFPD enforces and cites scooter riders, the number of tickets for scooter-sharers will surely increase, since ticketing for scooter riding doesn't currently appear to be a priority.
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And Ninebot, one of the largest scooter manufacturers, unveiled an autonomous scooter earlier this year.
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The company has also joined forces with Lime, an electric-scooter firm, to offer scooter rides.
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The Space Scooter is the scooter that keeps going, and you don't even need to kick.
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And it's clear that many scooter companies didn't realize how brutal the scooter market could be.
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How do you make a mobility scooter that still looks like a mobility scooter burn rubber?
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Much like other scooter companies, Tier works by unlocking an individual scooter through a phone app.
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My journey to e-scooter acceptance began when I saw an empty scooter outside my hotel.
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Anti-scooter activists tend to paint scooter riders as kamikaze daredevils, slaloming through cars and pedestrians.
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Bird-owned scooter operator, Scoot, has just released its next-gen electric scooter, the Bird Two.
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Their big idea is that instead of purchasing an e-scooter outright, GroverGo customers can enjoy unlimited e-scooter rides without the upfront costs or commitment of owning an e-scooter.
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BMW gave much more information about its scooters, including pricing at 800 Euro for the E-scooter, 200 Euro for the manual City scooter, and 120 Euro for a kid scooter.
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Segway-Group, a Beijing-based electric scooter maker, on Friday unveiled a scooter that can return itself to charging stations without a driver, a potential boon for the burgeoning scooter-sharing industry.
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The feud between Taylor Swift and Scooter Braun has turned scary now that Scooter and his fam are getting death threats, and a Scooter client -- Ariana -- has declared she's a Bernie girl.
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The junior scooter holds weight up to 130 pounds, and the regular scooter can hold 200 pounds.
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Google Maps has attempted to incorporate the efficiency of Scooter Map with its Lime e-scooter integration.
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But there's no "approved" app like Scooter Map that shows all the scooter options in a city.
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Scooter wariness has been around as long as the scooter-share business (that'd be about two years).
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Both BMW and Volkswagen are dipping into the scooter market, while Ford bought scooter company Spin outright.
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After that, we dug into two different pieces of scooter news (Boo!), namely that you can get a Boosted-branded electric scooter for $1,600 or the new Bird One scooter for around $1,300.
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Superpedestrian's scooter costs about $500 (similar to what Bird and Lime spend per scooter), though the company won't provide a specific price, and says each scooter can last between nine and 18 months.
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San Francisco hasn't been tracking scooter-involved incidents, but will once its scooter program kicks off in October.
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Ford recently acquired e-scooter startup Spin after helping launch an electric scooter-sharing project at Purdue University.
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Here in Washington, DC, where four scooter companies have launched, I've found that the scooter has many charms.
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A new battery-powered scooter intended for scooter-share companies like Lime and Bird is the Model Max.
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"Justin thinks Scooter has a big heart [and] thought Taylor's bashing of Scooter was unfair," the source shared.
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Still, the country with the most scooter activity is in the U.S., where 117 cities have scooter fleets.
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The second is implementing digital scooter stops of sorts where riders can request a scooter to go there.
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Ojo, a California electric scooter company, announced its intention to acquire Gotcha, a scooter and bike rental service.
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He said he would offer an Unagi scooter to anyone who ordered, but didn't receive, a Unicorn scooter.
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Lyft's new scooters are Segway-Ninebot's Shared Scooter Model Max, which are specifically designed for share scooter programs.
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" He then goes after Scooter, "The only fraud is Scooter Braun professing to be a high integrity individual.
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More than a third said that excessive scooter speed contributed to their crashes, and 19% believed their scooter malfunctioned.
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Unlike the scooter-share vehicles, you can't just leave your scooter anywhere once you're done riding — hence the lock.
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Most of the scooter companies are using rebadged versions of existing electric scooter models that are already for sale.
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Ninebot's Segway ES2 electric scooter is commonly used by popular scooter-sharing services like Lime, Bird, Uber, and Lyft.
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With Mathew in the hot seat, the scooter averaged more than 24 mph above the last record-setting scooter.
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But the group also included pedestrians who were struck by scooter riders or who stumbled over a discarded scooter.
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Regardless of the laws or rules governing scooter safety, the reality of riding an electric scooter is tremendously dangerous.
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Is this a solitary scooter snafu, or a sign of ugly things to come in the wider scooter market?
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Don't confuse the eScooter with Ninebot's smaller electric scooter lineup that became ubiquitous in the e-scooter rental industry.
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Here are the best electric scooters you can buy:Best electric scooter overall: Glion Dolly Foldable Lightweight Adult Electric ScooterBest budget electric scooter: Razor Power Core E90 Electric ScooterBest electric scooter for commuting while sitting: Razor EcoSmart Metro Electric ScooterBest for electric scooter commuting while standing: GOTRAX GXL Commuting Electric ScooterBest electric scooter for kids: Razor E100 Electric ScooterUpdated on 11/11/2019 by Caitlin Petreycik: Updated prices, links, and formatting.
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The latest issue comes from scooter operator Lime, The San Francisco-based company recently sent another cease and desist letter to Scooter Map, which pulls Lime scooter data like location and battery level onto its app.
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Governor Andrew Cuomo now supports e-scooter legalization and the scooter companies have hired lobbyists to make sure it happens.
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The scooter is manufactured in partnership with Segway/Ninebot, which is one of the biggest scooter makers in the world.
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Gogoro first revealed its scooter at the beginning of 2015, and back then it wasn't talking much about scooter sharing.
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This isn't the first scooter sharing service in Berlin — or even the first electric scooter sharing service in the city.
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Instead of owning the scooter outright, riders will now find Inboard's scooter as part of fleets operated by other companies.
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The Ojo scooter is unique in the way that it blurs the line between two very different types of scooter.
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Taxify launched an electric scooter service in Paris in September that uses the same app for scooter and ride sharing.
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And, at SXSW — a place already dedicated to corporate one-upmanship — every scooter company wants to be the scooter company.
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Ninebot by Segway ES4 kickscooter Price: $777 The ES4 is the latest electric scooter from Ninebot, a popular scooter manufacturer.
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If there were no scooter option available, almost half of scooter riders say they would have biked or walked instead.
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"I got on the scooter, pressed the gas, and the scooter just completely slipped out from under me," she said.
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The life of an electric scooter can be nasty, brutish, and short — so short that building a scooter with a much-improved lifespan has become a necessity for any scooter company that's hoping to stay in business.
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LAS VEGAS — The makers of the Gogoro's smart scooter, a smartphone-connected electric scooter that debuted on the roads of Taipei last year, have unveiled how they plan to choose the next cities to bring the scooter.
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BEIJING/HONG KONG (Reuters) - Segway-Ninebot Group, a Beijing-based electric scooter maker, on Friday unveiled a scooter that can return itself to charging stations without a driver, a potential boon for the burgeoning scooter-sharing industry.
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I think the whole scooter space — and let's just call it the scooter space rather than the handful of micromobility — I think if you look at the scooter space, it went through the Gartner hype cycle relatively quickly.
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Also, because this scooter goes so fast, the possibility of severely injuring myself if I fly off the scooter drastically increases.
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Electric scooter competitor Bird introduced a similar program called One Bird that eliminates the $1 fee to unlock a Bird scooter.
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A helmet is a must for riding an e-scooter, but it does nothing for actually making the scooter itself safer.
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Scooter companies are even offering to pay for bike lanes, which is where they insist scooter riders should be as well.
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Scooter Libby I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, the former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, was pardoned in April 2018 .
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TechCrunch's scooter aficionado Megan Rose Dickey dived into the current state of the scooter market, and came back decidedly non-plussed.
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This pay will vary based on how long it's been since the scooter was charged and when the scooter became available.
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While electric scooter startups are at a standstill in San Francisco, Lime is taking its scooter service to Santa Monica, Calif.
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With your phone, you book a scooter in a few seconds and type a code on the scooter to unlock it.
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" He urged the city to concentrate on deadly cars instead, noting, "I've never seen a scooter-on-scooter accident kill somebody.
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Superpedestrian released what it calls a "smart" scooter last year, built for the hard-riding street life of a rental scooter.
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Most of the e-scooter companies I reached out to didn't want to release specific numbers about scooter lifespans or cycles.
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Police discovered the scooter was broken in half, but the company hasn't said if the man was riding an Okai scooter.
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Audi is releasing an electric scooter that combines the handlebar function of a scooter with the rider positioning of a skateboard.
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Deep-pocketed e-scooter ventures should partner with cities to create scooter-enabled zones, with properly marked roadways and warning signage.
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The city has since imposed a nighttime e-scooter and e-bike ban and prohibited the issuance of additional scooter permits.
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VeoRide, a Chicago-based e-scooter share company, announced a helmet detection tool coming to its scooter rental app next year.
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Investors are pouring hundreds of millions into the scooter companies with the hope that the best-capitalized scooter company will win.
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Each scooter brings in about $15 a day and the Xiaomi scooters themselves are around $500 for a single scooter, not taking into account any bulk discounts or partnership deals, city fees, maintenance costs, scooter lifespan, and other expenses.
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BEIJING/HONG KONG, Aug 16 (Reuters) - Segway-Ninebot Group, a Beijing-based electric scooter maker, on Friday unveiled a scooter that can return itself to charging stations without a driver, a potential boon for the burgeoning scooter-sharing industry.
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There are portraits of Scooter locked in an embrace with his wife and of Scooter locked in an embrace with Whoopi Goldberg.
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Now, one of the points that defenders of the scooter valuations and scooter companies will say is, "Well ..." Explain their valuations first.
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The new scooter is manufactured in China by Segway-Ninebot, a Chinese-American company backed by Xiaomi, the world's predominant scooter-maker.
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The latest to jump in on the e-scooter craze, the company is launching an e-scooter monthly subscription service in Germany.
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Other scooter companies that rely on Segway-Ninebot include Lime, the now Ford-owned Spin and Uber's JUMP bike and scooter brand.
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"He had just pardoned Scooter Libby, who I think Scooter likewise had faced an unfair prosecution," Cruz said, according to the Tribune.
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But like other scooter and bike companies, Wheels is not immune to the financial rollercoaster of the dockless bike and scooter market.
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This is definitely the scooter that can hold up against the relentless barrage of users unlocking and riding the scooter all day.
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The side effects: 1 electric scooter rider was injured for every 5,000 scooter trips, per a 3-month CDC study in Austin.
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I haven't started my own scooter operation yet, but for when I want to build my e-scooter empire a platform like Superpedestrian's could be pre-fabricated way to maintain, organize, and attempt to actually make money off the scooter craze.
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But with a price that's higher than Boosted's premium Rev scooter, and a top speed that's less than Bird's frustratingly slow rental scooter, Audi might need to do a little more to get its debut electric scooter off the ground.
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But renting does come with its benefits: Bird will maintain and charge the scooter and you don't have to store the scooter overnight.
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Former Uber execs have gone on to found bike- or scooter-sharing startups, such as Travis VanderZanden, who started scooter sharing company Bird.
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Last month, Bird scooter-share company released its own safety report and encouraged helmet-wearing, careful riding, and appropriate parking and scooter etiquette.
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But it's a huge (aka pretty unreasonable) ask for people who are earning $5 per scooter now to suddenly drop $595 per scooter.
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Charging: Unlike some of the initial scooter sharing startups, Lyft says that its scooter maintenance staff will be company employees, not independent contractors.
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San Francisco has been scooter-free since June 4, after the city demanded startups remove their fleets or be fined $100 per scooter.
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It's not clear to me that the total cost of the scooter would still be less than ... It was a multimillion dollar scooter.
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VW has an electric scooter of its own, General Motors is making e-bikes, and Ford just acquired its own dockless scooter company.
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The Chinese scooter giant's new self-driving scooter, the KickScooter T60, was introduced at an event in Beijing on Friday, according to Reuters.
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Riding a flimsy scooter on rough streets is no fun, so scooter companies have been racing to get their hands on better scooters.
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This is part of Uber's permit with the city of San Francisco, which requires all electric scooter operators to pilot adaptive scooter share.
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Although these areas are outlined in scooter application maps, it's hard to know what will happen to your scooter if you enter one.
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It turns out that a nearly identical "smart scooter," called the ET Scooter, went on sale last September from a Shenzhen, China-based company.
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Even Skip, one of two San Francisco scooter operators, introduced a new scooter design within weeks of launching with a permit in the city.
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Just like other e-scooter startups, you unlock the GPS tracked scooters by scanning the QR-code on the scooter using the Taxify app.
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At these rates, Bird only recoups $67 on the cost of the average scooter — in other words, it loses a whopping $7 per scooter.
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Grow Mobility, the entity that consists of electric scooter startup Grin, and bike and scooter-share startup Yellow, has merged with payments startup Flinto.
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In San Francisco, which is similarly launching a scooter pilot program this fall, city leaders chose Skip and Scoot as their official scooter providers.
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Skip scooter deck Skip scooter deck With Spin, the company does have plans to build its own scooters, but isn't ready to announce details.
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As Libération reported back in May, the company used to pay freelancers €20 per scooter and slowly decreased that amount to €5 per scooter.
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A small ecosystem of scooter "chargers" rove the streets at night to pick up the scooters and recharge them, collecting a bounty per scooter.
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Lime users are taught how to check a scooter is safe before a trip, how to balance on a scooter and how to park.
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Investing in a scooter company last year was probably not a good idea because everyone wanted to have a scooter company in their portfolio.
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Eleven pedestrian injuries were the result of someone being hit by a scooter, while five occurred when a pedestrian tripped over a "parked" scooter and five were the result of a pedestrian trying to lift or carry a scooter that was not in use.
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Lime and Bird, a pair of well-funded e-scooter startups, have emerged as the front-runners of the already over-crowded e-scooter market.
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Seventy percent of interviewed riders said they'd received scooter training before being injured, and 60 percent said that training came from the scooter company's app.
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Soon, anyone with an iPhone can use Apple Pay's NFC tag to unlock and rent a Bird scooter, completely bypassing the e-scooter company's app.
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The scooter is cloud-connected, allowing you to run diagnostics and change settings from your phone, as well as find the scooter if it's lost.
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Once you place an order for the scooter, someone from Bird will get in touch to arrange the delivery of the scooter, charger and lock.
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Scooter companies now ask riders for a photo to verify that the scooter is parked in an appropriate spot at the end of a ride.
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The new scooter announcement comes on the same day that Bird announced it had acquired the San Francisco-based scooter- and moped-sharing company Scoot.
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A quick Google search for "Bird scooter hacks" brings up multiple YouTube videos, including this popular trick that involves lifting the scooter off the ground.
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And there have been a plethora of scooter dismemberment/kidnap horror stories coming out of California, judging by reports from the scooter wars front line.
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With scooter services like Bird, there is some hide-and-seek involved, as riders need to locate the closest scooter using the app's tiny map.
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Elsewhere in Europe, the company sells both bike and scooter rides in Berlin, Lisbon, Paris and Brussels, while in Madrid it only offers scooter sharing.
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A source with knowledge of the scooter companies' plans said that they are aggressively exploring ways to change the law to allow for scooter sharing.
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San Francisco-based e-scooter rental company Skip is mixing it up with swappable batteries in its new light blue custom-designed scooter, the S3.
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There are two different kinds—one is a scooter, like a Razor, that you ride and push, and the other is a Vespa-type scooter.
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Ask around and everyone has a story about almost being hit by an oblivious scooter rider, or seeing someone on a scooter doing something dumb.
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She uses a kick scooter and a motorized scooter to visit the Chechens, who live in rented apartments within roughly two miles of one another.
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New e-scooter startups have taken root in dozens of cities, and ride-hailing companies including Uber and Lyft have unveiled their own scooter services.
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When shopping for an electric scooter, you should consider the following:Maximum rider weight capacity: The scooter should be made to support your weight or more.
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After riding the scooter for a few minutes, one of the scooter that I rented was not working properly due to malfunction of the brakes.
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The Xiaomi Mi scooter was created for personal use, but it's quickly become the model of choice for a number of electric scooter-sharing startups.
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Daily trips per vehicle hit 9.3 as of mid-April, daily revenue per scooter rose to $27.70, and daily cost per scooter was at $14.30.
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But Ninebot said that Uber and Lyft, which have expanded into bike- and scooter-sharing, have expressed interest in the new scooter, according to Reuters.
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My only complaint: In the last shot, when she's on that scooter, I wish she was driving the scooter and the guy was behind her.
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I am grateful that President Trump righted this wrong by issuing a full pardon to Scooter, and I am thrilled for Scooter and his family.
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"When you get into the maxi scooter, you've lost the scooter thing," said Peter Lundgren, president of the Lambretta Club USA and a Vespa owner.
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While people who want a scooter will most likely buy a Vespa, Honda, Yamaha or Buddy, there are also people who simply need a scooter.
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During the study period, there were a total of 27,212 hours of e-scooter use, 237,239 miles ridden on e-scooters, and 26,26 e-scooter trips.
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Instead, the team looked at patterns in the scooter injuries, and they found that most of the patients were riding the scooter when they got hurt.
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Dan talks about how cities are cracking down on electric scooter companies, like Bird and Lime: Go deeper: How scooter startup investors justify their unicorn valuations
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A Vespa Elettrica app will allow users to connect to the scooter over Bluetooth so that the scooter can serve up messages and incoming phone calls.
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After all, if scooter riders are on sidewalks, maybe they just don't feel safe on the streets — you can't blame the scooter companies for poor infrastructure.
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And while the scooter companies want to promote themselves as carless solutions, Sandler said the average length of Bird's scooter trips is slightly over a mile.
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This business model has drastically lowered the barrier to entry for scooter riders, allowing scooter skeptics to cheaply satiate their curiosity, turning some into loyal riders.
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"Obviously I'm biased but I would say that the Xiaomi scooter/Ninebot scooter is higher quality than the one that Lime are using," he tells us.
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Hjelm says the Voiager 2 is Voi's first scooter based on the Voi modular scooter architecture (VOI MSA), which allows for easy service, repair and upgrades.
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After BoingBoing editor Cory Doctorow published a blog post about how to turn a Bird scooter into a "personal scooter," Bird sent its lawyers after him.
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A class-action lawsuit filed in Los Angeles accuses scooter-share companies Bird and Lime, plus scooter makers Xiaomi United States and Segway, of gross negligence.
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The Audi e-tron scooter — a name that matches the German automaker's all-electric SUV — combines a traditional electric scooter with the machinations of a skateboard.
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I am grateful today that President Trump righted this wrong by issuing a full pardon to Scooter, and I am thrilled for Scooter and his family.
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Many scooter riders also zip along sidewalks instead of bike lanes or streets, despite scooter companies' claims they try to educate customers how to safely ride.
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Spin also plans to apply for the e-scooter permit in France next month, as well as explore opportunities in the U.K. for electric scooter sharing.
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Electric scooter-riding millennials in cities are the most likely group to get injured while riding a scooter, according to a new study published this week.
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Volkswagen might not go as far to actually produce and sell its own e-scooter, but it has a concept scooter it unveiled earlier this year.
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Injuries have become a big problem, too, with many scooter companies struggling to promote safety without compromising the inherent convenience of hopping on a scooter at whim.
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After all, how can you plan to ride a scooter if you don't have a reliable idea of where the scooter will be when you need it?
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Skip works like most other dockless scooter-sharing services: you find a free scooter using the Skip app, scan a code to unlock it, and take off.
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Beyond the LA area, San Francisco started tracking scooter-related injuries when its pilot program kicked off mid-October with two e-scooter operators, Skip and Scoot.
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Our tipster estimated that a typical scooter rollout is making a loss of about $23 per scooter per ride ($2 per ride, versus $25 per ride cost).
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As if there weren't enough scooters out there whizzing around, an Austin-based electric scooter company wants anyone and everyone to start their own scooter rental business.
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Scooter-sharing startup Bird announced a new program yesterday called Bird Delivery that will let users request a scooter to be delivered to their home or business.
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Designed especially for kids, the Razor E100 Electric Scooter is fun, safe, and durable for little ones or anyone just starting out in the electric scooter world.
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In cities like San Francisco where multiple scooter services are available, riders often flip between apps until they find a scooter that's nearby and in good shape.
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With the rise of scooter-sharing startups, China-based scooter maker Segway-Ninebot is looking to remain the manufacturer of choice by expanding into commercial-grade vehicles.
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On March 27, TechCrunch reported the SFMTA is hoping to push through legislation to regulate scooter shares by creating a scooter share-specific permit and fine structure.
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The electric scooter wars of 2019 The subsumption of Circ comes after other scooter companies underwent layoffs themselves, and in some cases, struggled to raise fresh capital.
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Scooter Braun Scooter Braun and Taylor Swift have been in a public battle ever since his acquisition of Big Machine Records, which owns all of Swift's masters.
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The Ninebot Segway ES24 Electric Scooter, a popular choice among scooter-sharing companies like Bird and Lime, is currently $33 instead of $23 with the code ES227VERGE.
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Yellow, which already operates bike and scooter-rental services in Brazil, intends to use the funding to expand its scooter and bike-sharing operations in Latin America.
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One guy was on a scooter and the other, the skinny one was driving a Fiat and trying to drive in with us like he was a scooter.
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Other stories of gory e-scooter injuries — and worse — have been reported; one woman in Cleveland recently died after being hit by a car while on a scooter.
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Every scooter company today is operating at a loss, but Bird in particular has an interesting plan to spread the gospel of the scooter without going completely bankrupt.
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They are also requiring the scooter companies to supply them with data, which should provide a more complete picture of the scooter phenomenon as cities crunch the numbers.
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And San Francisco announced that only two scooter companies — Scoot and Skip — will get the coveted permits to participate in a one-year, powered-scooter-share pilot program.
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Emily Hartridge, a popular YouTuber, became the first reported fatality involving an e-scooter in Britain, where the government is currently reviewing laws around ridership and scooter companies.
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"If I see a picture of a kid with a scooter, I'm now going to Google the scooter, and see if it's right for my child," says Caplan.
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Riding on an electric, shared, dockless, Bird Scooter in Santa Monica, at almost every stop light people walked up to ask me directions or asked about the scooter.
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At the scooter community town hall, representatives from Lime, Bird, and Skip make a point of telling Oaklanders that teens on scooters definitely aren't the scooter companies' fault.
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New York, a longtime holdout in the dockless electric scooter boom, appears poised to finally allow scooter-sharing companies like Bird and Lime to operate on its roads.
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A Lime scooter rider died in Washington, D.C., marking the second fatality this month On electric bikes: Bird is one of few scooter businesses that doesn't offer bikes.
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Following news that Lyft laid off dozens of its employees earlier this month in its scooter and bike division, Bird is the latest scooter outfit to cut staff.
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"With this new scooter model, Lyft is bringing rider experience to the next level," Lyft Head of Bike, Scooter and Pedestrian Policy Caroline Samponaro said in a statement.
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It has developed what it calls the Audi e-tron scooter, which is intended to be a cross between a scooter and skateboard, the company announced on Monday.
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However, basic issues remain unresolved, such as how cities will regulate scooters, where scooter users should ride the vehicles, helmet laws and fixing the backlog at scooter manufacturers.
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Dubbed the BMW E-Scooter (the Mercedes version is also simply, "Mercedes-Benz E-Scooter"), it has a 7.5-mile range and a max speed of 12 mph.
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He says he agreed to "re-purchase" Atom Factory -- a management company which Scooter bought from Troy -- and Scooter offered him a discount if he paid up front.
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The bike- and scooter-share company is offering a promo code for users to snag a free bike, e-bike, or e-scooter ride to and from the polls.
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San Francisco-based electric scooter sharing network Scoot tells TechCrunch it plans to share its back-end software with third-party scooter operators in congested cities around the world.
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While scooter-sharing isn't explicitly outlined in the city's transportation code, it is illegal to place a scooter in a way that obstructs the sidewalk, the SFMTA spokesperson said.
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There's been a renewed focus on scooter safety after the death of YouTuber Emily Hartridge, who was killed recently when her scooter was hit by a truck in London.
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Then he got on the scooter and started riding it toward Heinkel, who says he refused to back down and, as a result, was run over by the scooter.
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Scooter (Died April 8, 20163)Right after Scooter was named the world's oldest living cat by the Guinness Book of World Records, he died at the age of 30.
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In an effort to keep myself from falling into a scooter rabbit hole, I'll just say this: raising capital is no longer a piece of cake for scooter companies.
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Though he was aided by a mobility scooter, Lee took time to meet fans and sign autographs and later hopped out of the scooter to take plenty of pictures.
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And people zipping around on e-scooters is a pretty common sight in another dense European city, Barcelona, which has very scooter-friendly weather but no scooter startups (yet).
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Last month the Center for Disease Control concluded a study into the danger of e-scooter rentals, following a spike in emergency room visits from e-scooter-related injuries.
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It may seem like the inverse purpose of a scooter-share program, but e-scooter company Bird revealed its new strategy on Thursday with its new Bird Delivery option.
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The two companies said they would also jointly update their respective delivery scooter models, which Honda may also manufacture for Yamaha, while also considering collaboration on electric scooter projects.
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For instance, Segwey unveiled in January the Model Max scooter, a more robust product designed to help shared-scooter services like Bird and Lime reduce operating and maintenance costs.
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Ojo is currently working on a more robust scooter that can safely ride along with cars, going 35 mph, and plans to explore a type of scooter-sharing solution.
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San Francisco placed a temporary ban on all scooter-rental companies last year, before lifting it to allow a restricted number of scooter-rental companies to enter the city.
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Fresh off the heels of its first serious attempt at electric vehicles, Audi has announced the E-tron scooter, a concept electric scooter that you ride like a skateboard.
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Another underwater electric scooter made its debut in Germany on Saturday after a lightweight, handheld e-scooter made a splash at a water tank at the CES tech show.
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" - Michael, 35 "Rented a scooter with zero experience.
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Wheels, a Los Angeles-based startup that competes with the e-scooter companies, offers a rentable device that looks like a cross between an e-bike and an e-scooter.
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With scooter services like Bird, there is some hide-and-seek involved, as riders need to locate the closest scooter using the scooter's GPS device and the app's tiny map.
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The regulations will require scooter companies to obtain insurance policies, free the city from all legal liability, cap speeds on the boardwalk, and obtain permits for every scooter in circulation.
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Emily Hartridge, 35, became the first reported fatality involving an e-scooter in Britain, where the government is currently reviewing laws and public education campaigns around ridership and scooter companies.
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"That's news to us, we have a contract with both," wrote an executive at a leading scooter company, when asked about the deal and its implications for the scooter business.
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You hunt around your neighborhood to find a scooter, you ride around the city on a silent, electric scooter and then you park it wherever you want when you're done.
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Instead of searching for an electric scooter wherever you may be when the urge to scoot hits, Bird wants you to already have a scooter with you. All. Day. Long.
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The Los Angeles Times reports that the scooter was a Bird, a popular type of electric rental scooter, and that police don't believe Hernandez and her attacker knew each other.
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The augmented reality mapping startup has a new scooter positioning camera that captures video and then matches that against a map to reliably identify how the scooter is being used.
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Competition: San Francisco's transportation agency will dole out up to five permits to scooter companies, so Uber and Lyft will be vying with scooter startups like Bird, Lime, and Spin.
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Plus, if a scooter is moving at 15mph into a no-ride zone, the scooter may not realize and slow down until a rider is deep into a restricted area.
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One company offered to include a helmet with each scooter, and another offered to require users to submit a selfie while wearing a helmet before the scooter could be unlocked.
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However, questions about where scooter users should ride the vehicles, the impact on bicycle lanes, helmet laws and liability have concerned regulators globally, leading some cities to limit scooter permits.
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In Austin, Texas, public health officials working with the CDC produced a landmark study that counted 22019 scooter-related injuries in just three months during a 2018 scooter pilot program.
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The idea — and thinking behind Grover as a whole — is that instead of purchasing an e-scooter outright (or in this instance, relying on using the sprawling number of pay-per-ride services), GroverGo customers can enjoy unlimited e-scooter rides without the upfront costs or commitment of owning an e-scooter.
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"[The study] fails to take into account the sheer number of e-scooter trips taken -- the number of injuries reported would amount to a fraction of one percent of the total number of e-scooter rides," Paul Steely White, director of safety policy and advocacy at scooter company Bird, said in a statement.
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It's not completely clear why Ford feels the need to acquire Spin — let alone any electric scooter company — instead of just forming partnerships with scooter manufacturers to launch its own service.
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Scooter companies like the Uber-owned Jump are not having it with the Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT) data-gathering policies required for operating a scooter company in the city.
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For example, it can tell a scooter light to flash via a tap on the Wind app so that users and operational personnel can spot the scooter more easily at night.
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" And the minimum you take home per scooter has dropped: For Bird, "It used to be a $5 minimum payout to chargers for each scooter and now their minimum is $3.
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The deal isn't the first time Ford's entered the e-scooter market; the company started conducting a test run of scooter rentals at Purdue University under the name "Jelly" last month.
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Owners would be able to charge the scooter through a socket in the rear hatch of the car, allowing them to park and then ride the scooter to their ultimate destination.
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For example, with differential privacy in place, employees at a scooter share company could analyze drop-offs and pickups at different times without also specifically knowing who rode which scooter where.
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Another way to reduce the environmental impact would be to build a better scooter that lasts longer than the models that were deployed in the early days of the scooter boom.
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It's not just cities, but also scooter-share operators and the scooter manufacturers that'll incorporate the technology into the vehicles as part of their charging, distributing, safety, and de-cluttering plans.
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The scooter study was launched in December when three CDC epidemiologists spent two weeks in Austin reviewing incidents and scooter-related injuries during a 270-day period from September to November.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Electric scooter company Superpedestrian on Wednesday said it had raised $20 million for its diagnostic software that can spot impending hardware failure, a major problem for scooter operators.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Electric scooter company Superpedestrian on Wednesday said it had raised $20 million for its diagnostic software that can spot impending hardware failure, a major problem for scooter operators.
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I rode on my Bird scooter — cause I really wanted to embrace South By and the cliché of Austin — I rode on my Bird scooter to Jos A Bank this morning.
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The scooter services rode a wave of hype, and I suspect the severity of the backlash to scooter debris — and the vandalism — was greater than the companies and their investors expected.
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Scooter companies are redesigning their scooters to be more resilient and longer-lasting, but none have yet been able to produce a scooter that is completely water resilient — or one that floats.
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And yes, it's a lot of money to spend on an electric scooter when compared to the many $500 (and under) e-scooters such as Xiaomi's Mi Electric Scooter that are available.
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It's the first comprehensive study to report the range of injuries resulting from the new scooter-sharing craze, and it could help scooter companies and cities figure out ways to prevent them.
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In another of Spain's big tourist cities the scooter story is a little different: Catalan capital Barcelona hasn't had an invasion of on-demand scooter startups yet but scooters have crept in.
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Crowdfunding pre-sales campaigns for Niu's first full-sized e-scooter and mini e-scooter have been major successes: 72,022,526 RMB and 81,0003,425 RMB, respectively — that's around $10.5 million and $11.75 million.
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And as for injuries — Bird will pay out if its scooter breaks, but not if a rider is putting the scooter through its paces for a bid at a new extreme sport.
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In response to a question about proper scooter parking, Hanson said Bird now requires users to take a picture at the end of the ride to prove the scooter is parked properly.
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I'm honestly more interested in the scooter — I wound up liking EcoReco's e-scooter way more than I thought I would at this year's CES, and this looks like a cheaper alternative.
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Whether you use scooter-sharing services like Lime and Bird, or you (or someone you know) have an eye out for electric scooter deals, now's a pretty good time to buy one.
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Case in point: After many, many scooter rides in D.C., I fractured my elbow on Sunday when I collided into the sideview mirror of a parked car while riding a Bird scooter.
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After months of scooter-less streets in San Francisco, city transportation officials finally broke their silence Thursday to announce which electric scooter companies would be allowed to rent out the battery-powered vehicles.
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Spin, the electric scooter company acquired by a Ford subsidiary for around $100 million, is launching a new electric scooter with a sturdier frame, improved braking system, bigger tires and longer-range battery.
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When she did, the woman in the scooter cursed back at the person she'd run into under her breath, which incited her to allegedly punch the one in the scooter, the newspaper reports.
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The app will show if a scooter is available, how many others are nearby, how long it'll take to walk to the scooter, and an estimate of how much your ride will cost.
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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.
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Scooter company Bird is finally rolling out its franchise program, first announced last fall, through which it will provide select entrepreneurs with scooters and software for them to operate local scooter rental services.
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If they signed up to be a scooter charger, it's theoretically possible to reach a kind of scooter rental equilibrium, in which the costs of operation are negated by the payments from recharging.
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New software like Remix for New Mobility allows cities to visualize and learn from scooter- and bike-share data—and to make sure that scooter and bike companies are complying with local rules.
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ACTON, the creators of RocketSkates (which it says are the world's first smart electric skates) and the M-scooter (a motorized scooter), on Tuesday unveiled the Blink Board, a wireless, Bluetooth-controlled skateboard.
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This spring, Uber, Lyft, and other companies that are now in the scooter-share businesses have been engaged in a quiet struggle with the city of Los Angeles over scooter data and privacy.
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To date, the only electric scooter businesses that we have seen launched in the U.K. have been pilots in closed campuses, like the Bird scooter service in the Olympic Village started last year.
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The scooter also beams this information out to the cloud using a small cellular radio, and that powers the phone app, which lets you run diagnostics, locate the scooter, or plan your route.
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Dubbed GroverGo, customers can rent the Xiaomi e-scooter Mijia M365 for €49.90 per month and have access to a rental scooter of their own for a fraction of the cost of buying.
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Ostensibly, this is designed to help build the habit of using a Bird scooter to commute every day, by guaranteeing there's a scooter available at the right time and place, reserved for you.
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With this new scooter model, the battery was custom built for the shared electric scooter service use case and is also completely enclosed, which should help prevent it from getting damaged, Dastoor said.
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Austin scooter parking Austin scooter parking Moving forward, companies are looking at ways to ease some of its effects on sidewalk congestion, which has been a primary concern for city dwellers and legislators.
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Our long-time transportation and scooter aficionado Megan Rose Dickey has all the latest on where the scooter world stands today and what's in store going forward: Data rules everything around me (D.R.E.A.M.).
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In Santa Monica, scooter startup Bird's hometown, the city planning department has recommended the council award its two pilot program permits to Lyft and Uber over the one-year-old electric scooter upstart.
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Now, the dockless scooter company says it's ready to roll out its next next-gen scooter, Bird Two, and — you guessed it — it's more durable, powerful, and longer-lasting than the previous version.
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Walkin' Pets Walkin' Scooter, $179 to $199 — available nowThe Walkin' Scooter gives dogs with paralysis a new level of freedom indoors, allowing them to glide quietly and smoothly as they navigate their home.
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LONDON — Two teenage boys raced through London on a scooter and threw or sprayed acid in the faces of five other scooter riders apparently chosen at random late Thursday, according to the police.
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The scooter can accelerate to an impressive 30 mph, which doesn't make it the fastest electric two-wheeler on the market, but certainly outpaces any Bird or Lime scooter by a long shot.
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SAN FRANCISCO Nov 20 (Reuters) - Electric scooter company Superpedestrian on Wednesday said it had raised $20 million for its diagnostic software that can spot impending hardware failure, a major problem for scooter operators.
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For example, Niu owners can use a smartphone app to track the real-time GPS location of a scooter, and get notifications whenever the battery is removed, or the scooter is tampered with.
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Motorcycle scooters will be taxed €60 per scooter per year.
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In Egypt, Uber also offers UberX, Select and Scooter services.
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For example, I thought the Scooter Libby pardon was fine.
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Many electric scooter companies don't actually build their own scooters.
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Bro, are you on a Bird scooter on the highway?
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Just for comparison's sake, Xiaomi's Mi scooter weighs 223 pounds.
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IV: The Impact: How Have Kris & Scooter Changed The Industry?
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A LimeBike dockless scooter, shown alongside one from competitor Bird.
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Now you can order a scooter through the Uber app.
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That's where the GXL Commuter Scooter comes in, from GOTRAX.
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Bieber's longtime manager Scooter Braun expressed his disappointment on Twitter.
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And Denmark is piloting its own scooter project right now.
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But the name Scooter would have to mean success, too.
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And yeah, they get paid per scooter to do this.
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In total, 249 records were explicitly about electric scooter injuries.
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Trivedi speculates that poor scooter maintenance could contribute to injuries.
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Scooter riding on sidewalks is controversial due to safety issues.
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McDowell, 36, commented on the post with a scooter emoji.
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It was specific to the scooter they gave to me.
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If I was Scooter Braun, I would be threatened too.
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And Uber is taking its place in the scooter racket.
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This was was undoubtedly the year of the electric scooter.
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Scooter startups have already run into some of these issues.
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That's all still true; the scooter itself is not changing.
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The world needs you right now, Domino's Pizza Scooter Man.
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Police estimated the cost to fix each scooter at $70.
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Scooter Braun, the manager of longtime Swift foe Kanye West.
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I have never seen a scooter rider wear a helmet.
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A rep for Scooter has declined to comment to PEOPLE.
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Park the scooter and end the ride on the app.
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You even need a driver's license to ride a scooter.
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You can leave the scooter anywhere within certain limits, presumably.
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It seems almost too easy to steal an electric scooter.
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Late last year Ford bought the electric scooter startup Spin.
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To be sure, Lyft is late to the scooter party.
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Scooter vandalism "might be fun for a while," Poon said.
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There are currently 12 (yes, twelve) scooter startups in Paris.
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But that hasn't stopped the scooter startups from declaring victory.
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Some scooter startups are aggressively expanding in dozens of cities.
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More about the new scooter will be revealed next week.
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Skip technicians can replace a part without decommissioning the scooter.
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But upon entering the forbidden zone, the scooter kept moving.
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"Not everyone can afford their own electric scooter," he said.
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LA, Uber, and privacy advocates square off over scooter data.
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Scooter Gennett grounded to second to finally end the inning.
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The video shows something else that's new -- a second scooter.
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In September, someone lost their life after a scooter accident.
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"Oh, I'd love a ride on your scooter," responds Corden.
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Skip says it sees seven rides per day per scooter.
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But don't get your hopes up for a Tesla scooter.
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He used a wheelchair or a scooter to get around.
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Just Elijah Wood riding by on a rental scooter. pic.twitter.
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Boyd struck out the next batter, then walked Scooter Gennett.
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Bush uses a wheelchair and an electric scooter for mobility.
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Scott "Scooter" Braun, 38, is a native of Stratford, Ontario.
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Its classic bike and scooter share program is not affected.
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Just please don't text and drive, even on a scooter.
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You have a great shot of him on a scooter.
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Uber and Lyft apply for electric scooter permits in SF
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Scooter Gennett had two hits and two RBIs for Cincinnati.
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Price: $1 to unlock the scooter, then $0.15 per minute.
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Dockless bike (and scooter) share companies are a different breed.
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Other electric scooter companies rely on Segway's Ninebot, including Bird.
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Dolph and Scooter have teamed up for a full mixtape.
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More: How Lime is pitching its scooter biz to investors
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The company just launched its electric scooter service in Paris.
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After the performance I sit on my scooter and smoke.
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I think there were at least 503 scooter companies. 16.
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He rode this pink rundown scooter, and spoke broken English.
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Scooter startup Lime is ending the juicer model in Paris.
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Scooter rules vary widely by city, and even by company.
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Earlier this year, Scooter Gennett accomplished the feat for Cincinnati.
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But I wanted to experience the scooter craze for myself.
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Scooter Braun is suggesting that he's taking the high road.
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The Bird Zero was almost as smooth as Uber's scooter.
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But for now, my scooter of choice is definitely Lyft.
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"Here comes Hanukkah Harry on the electric scooter," he said.
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The scooter companies see themselves as part of the solution.
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Once done, riders can leave the scooter on the street.
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I took BK's #scooter, and made him take the #skateboard.
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But then, the electric scooter quietly slipped onto our streets.
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Why don't you ride by on a scooter doing it?
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No, he was riding a scooter without a helmet. Yeah.
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Know something about scooter startups or the people protesting them?
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He'll also executive produce alongside West, Smith, and Scooter Braun.
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Scooter felt the GOP was using Bieber as its tool.
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Grande's manager, Scooter Braun, issued a statement condemning the attack.
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The scooter boom has even attracted ride-hail giants like Uber and Lyft, which are looking to offset their contribution to rising traffic congestion by replacing short car rides with bike and scooter trips.
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It will back similar companies in different geographies, as happened with the LA-based scooter company Bird, and a more recent and very big bet on the scooter and bike company Bounce, in India.
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To help staff up, the DOT plans to charge scooter companies $30,000 a year to operate in Oakland, as well as $64 per scooter per year, and 10 cents to park in metered areas.
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And a guide on a scooter forum recently spread on Twitter, showing people how a $2003 kit from China could be used to rejigger a $500 scooter from Bird into your own personal vehicle.
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Go deeper: SF will allow e-scooter fleet to double if Scoot, Skip recruit more low-income customers Lime, Bird, and other scooter companies just proved they can help take cars off the road
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Unicorn: Scooter companies that rent by the minute lose 1953 percent of their fleet per day to damage and theft, and that means customers don't have a safe scooter available when they want one.
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The Scooter Wars are heating up, with Bird and Lime scattering their app-locked ridesharing scooters around several major cities, and Uber and Lyft preparing to throw their scooter-shaped hats into the ring.
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The scooter startup secured $8 million in funding last year, and it was one of the first scooter companies to bring the electric vehicles to San Francisco this year along with Bird and Lime.
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Taylor Swift may be locked and loaded to go after Scooter Braun Sunday at the AMAs, but we've learned she'll be talking to an empty chair because Scooter will be thousands of miles away.
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Parking: The company says it wants tap into its UberEats network of local restaurants to establish scooter parking areas and work with the city on creating designated scooter drop-off hubs and street parking.
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The company has yet to commit to additional scooter models, but Russakow says there is a range of directions Boosted could go, be that a more economical scooter model or even another form factor.
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In many places, it's against the law to ride an electric scooter on the sidewalk, and neophyte scooter riders, unlike veteran cyclists, aren't trained in the safest ways to share the road with cars.
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Indian scooter rental startup Bounce raises $150M Bounce, formerly known as Metro Bikes, allows customers to rent a scooter for as little as Rs 1 (0.1 cents) per kilometer and Rs 1.5 per hour.
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In addition to running a shared electric scooter business, Bird now sells scooters direct-to-consumers, operates a monthly rental program and enables entrepreneurs to run their own shared scooter businesses through Bird Platform.
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Up until now, to rent a Scoot e-scooter (and all other companies offering scooter rentals) you had to download the app and plug in payment information, usually a credit or debit card number.
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"So, in a sense, it doesn't matter whether Bird is right or wrong when it claims that it's illegal to convert a Bird scooter to a personal scooter," said Walsh in a separate blog post.
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A Rutgers New Jersey Medical School study published last month found head injuries almost tripled in the past decade from e-scooter use and that 66 percent of injured scooter users were not wearing helmets.
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The company wrote in an email this afternoon that the bill passage won't be an immediate change, especially with scooter-shares and rentals, but personal scooter ownership is now a more viable option throughout NYC.
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A Denial of Service (DoS) attack could be used to remote lock any M365 scooter, while a malware attack could be used to install a new firmware that could take full control of the scooter.
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I took the Space Scooter for a spin outside the Mashable offices, and it only took two laps up and down the block until I felt as comfortable as I do on a kick scooter.
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A video titled "Skinner Scooter" ("skinner" is prison slang for child molester), posted by Surrey Creep Catchers on November 16, shows a Facebook Live bust of a man on a scooter who has cerebral palsy.
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We fill out the type of scooter it is, where we found it, the device ID number, and take a photo of the location so we can show the scooter company where we found it.
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Xiaomi, the electric scooter manufacturer that a handful of the shared electric scooter services in the U.S. (like ones from Lyft, Spin and Bird) rely on, has sent a cease-and-desist letter to Lyft.
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During the ride while crossing an intersection sidewalk, I went over a 5-4 inch curve walk which caused my scooter to flip toward launching me foward over the scooter face first on the pavement.
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Bird recently pledged to provide the cities in which it operates $1 per scooter per day as a way to share revenue with the city, and asked the other scooter share companies to sign on.
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If cities want to encourage safe scooter riding — and they should, given the benefits they have for congestion and environmental health — they should create protected scooter lanes and encourage drivers to give them more room.
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San Francisco-based maintenance workers for Spin, a scooter rental company owned by Ford, have voted to unionize and joined a local Teamsters chapter, making them the first in the scooter industry to do so.
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The attacks began when two assailants on a scooter pulled up to a man on another scooter at an intersection, threw a corrosive substance in his face and then stole his vehicle, the police said.
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Skip is not the only scooter company to face battery issues.
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Uber didn't offer any other specifications about the scooter when asked.
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But the Rev is not the only scooter you can buy.
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Others included Grover Norquist and, inexplicably, disgraced political advisor Scooter Libby.
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Spin, the dockless electric scooter startup, has a new owner: Ford.
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The e-scooter craze can be traced back entirely to California.
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Bush White House official Scooter Libby was convicted in that case.
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The best way to travel in Goa is on a scooter.
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Hu Haiquan and band member, Chen Yufan, promoting the Ninebot scooter.
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The Superpedestrian scooter is supposed to last three to seven days.
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Whatever scooter is lying on the sidewalk, I just grab it.
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But Citymapper also added a new scooter button in multiple cities.
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Bird is the first scooter company to launch such a program.
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A scooter knocked me off the sidewalk and onto my knees.
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I returned to New York, waiting for my scooter to come.
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Such information is now being sought as officials mull scooter regulations.
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Others were tossed because it was the wrong kind of scooter.
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And wouldn't you know it, scooter drama persists in San Francisco.
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And finally, we took a look at a Parisian scooter tax.
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Police notified Lime and other scooter operators about the damaged devices.
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Vandalism and depreciation are taking their toll on the scooter business.
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My guess is more scooter companies switch to monthly subscriptions. pic.twitter.
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The Gogoro scooter-sharing service, Coup, has launched today in Paris.
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"Keeping it clean," the Wheels worker says of the scooter towers.
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Only 23.039% replaced their car or motorbike with an e-scooter.
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His only gripe is that the scooter struggles when going uphill.
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"Now Scooter has stripped me of my life's work," she said.
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Now, regrettably, Scooter has lost that title, due to natural causes.
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A Scoot scooter with the company's new locks in San Francisco.
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"Today I tried a scooter, and it went well," he said.
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Like Uber, Lyft is also running its own electric-scooter program.
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Even a brand new, premium Honda or Vespa scooter is cheaper.
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Even as new companies join the scooter business, others are retreating.
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Hyundai just announced an electric scooter concept here at CES 2017.
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Add another item to the growing list of anti-scooter backlash.
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He confirmed that scooter hacking is totally a thing right now.
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What will come of the scooter companies' similarly laissez-faire approach?
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This marks Bird's first move outside of the kick scooter space.
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It is different with Bird because there is no big scooter.
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He picked up a Bird scooter and started beating my car.
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This would require regulation from cities and education from scooter companies.
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Scooter Gennett then drove home Votto with a single to right.
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It seems like all is fair in love and scooter wars.
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The Nice 23.93 EV is the cheaper scooter, costing around $223.9,22025.
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Last week, I wrote about scooter companies struggling to raise cash.
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Erin's ex, Ethan (Scooter McNair), can't get through to her either.
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But as he was approaching the scooter, someone scooped it up.
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"Troy Carter or Scooter Braun, they're really smart guys," Harding said.
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Truly, nothing says cool like a gang of scooter riding teenagers.
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Scooter Gennett, who entered leading the National League in hitting at .
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Right now, a Chinese-made scooter costs each company around $400.
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There are some jobs for the scooter companies, but they're different.
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Nashville is banishing the scooters after its first scooter-related death.
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He's the first successful offspring of Nasan and her mate Scooter.
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Paris had already taken some actions against scooter startups before today.
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Scooter users have also been caught behaving badly in other cities.
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It was possibly the first e-scooter he had ever seen.
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Scooter riders take to sidewalks, just as they do on bikes.
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Photo: BoostedThe new Boosted electric scooter will start shipping this summer.
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It says this makes VOI Europe's leading e-scooter sharing company.
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BONUS: Xcooter is a rad electric scooter with an unfortunate name
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I'd be singing a different tune if the scooter was better.
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She was thrown off the scooter and both vehicles caught fire.
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The telethon is being produced by Scooter Braun and Bun B.
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Authorities said that Hernandez had been beaten with a motorized scooter.
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Additionally, scooter companies need to do more outreach in underrepresented communities.
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But it's a polished scooter, and it's remarkably easy to use.
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Austin PD weren't kidding about their scooter ban during #sxsw pic.twitter.
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Eventually each scooter will cost $1,199 to add to your fleet.
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Sure, Citi Bike and other scooter companies don't offer them either.
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We'll have to see if competition spurs a scooter price war.
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Motivate is not on the list of San Francisco scooter applicants.
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The most recognizable scooter brand in the world is going electric.
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Read more: The scooter wars are coming to Europe this summer.
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So why wouldn't scooter companies just launch their own camera systems?
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More scooter dollars, Slack's revenue projections and the IPO traffic jam
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Its high density translates into higher scooter usage, increasing cost-effectiveness.
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Trump's pardon of Scooter Libby last week only intensified those fears.
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I could get the scooter up to 20 miles per hour.
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Audi introduced an electric scooter Monday that could solve that problem.
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The scooter is made of aluminum and weighs about 18 pounds.
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This foldable scooter has two front wheels and one rear wheel.
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It had been rutted parkland before — hostile terrain for a scooter.
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A Bird dockless scooter in San Francisco, California in April 2018.
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Similarly, the scooter startups are obviously reliant on existing city infrastructure.
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The elder Mr. Feldman was becoming reliant on a motorized scooter.
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Lime, a bike- and scooter-share startup, has a similar program.
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I just rode a scooter here to get here on time.
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Scooter owners find nearby GoChargers with fresh batteries on Gogoro's app.
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The scooter startups are taking over the world — or trying to.
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Bird CEO on scooter startup copycats, unit economics, safety and seasonality
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We don't know what this means for the rejected scooter startups.
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Miami officials told scooter companies to retrieve their vehicles by Friday.
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As he explained, Thomasz Sobieszek, 47, pulled up on his scooter.
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She uses an electric scooter to make her way around Brooklyn.
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And I take a scooter every day from the Caltrain station.
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One is it costs a lot less to buy a scooter.
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SAN FRANCISCO — The e-scooter boom began in Santa Monica, Calif.
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It's had scooter companies use GPS to block off the stations.
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And both companies are experimenting with their own scooter-sharing programs.
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To be sure, no scooter company in operation today is profitable.
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Los Angeles, where the city recently banned its electric scooter business.
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Greycroft does have an investment in electric scooter company Bird though.
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Their company, ScootScoop, has essentially turned them into scooter bounty hunters.
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Some scooter companies have paid to get them back, they said.
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Save $110 on the Bird ES1-300 Electric Scooter (renewed) — $289.99
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In other words, it's like an electric scooter with cruise control.
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Riding a Gen 2 Lime scooter was a somewhat harrowing experience.
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Each time you kick off the ground, the scooter speeds up.
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Diving into the ocean is as easy as... riding a scooter.
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The young woman riding the scooter was able to act quickly.
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Some scooter companies will struggle to live up to their valuations.
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The electric scooter industry has already had a roller-coaster year.
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E-scooter riders are not known for the safest riding habits.
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You'll have owned your Razor scooter for 20 years in 2020.
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Ignore the abandoned scooter, a common sight in LA these days.
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Earlier this year, the two launched a scooter startup called Wheels.
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Carter does not specifically say if he still owes Scooter money.
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"Most of the patients with these injuries specifically reported that they were riding an e-scooter or a rental scooter," Troy Madsen, a doctor at the University of Utah Health's Emergency Department, told the Washington Post.
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Supporters of scooter-sharing will often point out that the number of people injured in scooter-related incidents pale in comparison with the number of people who are injured and killed by motor vehicles each year.
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"[The study] fails to take into account the sheer number of e-scooter trips takenâ€"the number of injuries reported would amount to a fraction of one percent of the total number of e-scooter rides.
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Among other projects in the works, Lime is planning a launch of brick-and-mortar scooter lifestyle stores in the U.S., beginning with Santa Monica, California, the headquarters of its biggest competitor, e-scooter startup Bird.
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Scooter clearly wasn't going to become exclusive to Kanye so he no longer acts as his manager, but Kanye is relying on Scooter to advise and partner with him on all business decisions and business extensions.
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The two companies said that pooling resources would be a way to mitigate increasing costs to develop new scooter technologies and keep pace with ever-tightening emissions regulations in the face of falling domestic scooter sales.
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The 2.7 horsepower motor allows the 143-pound scooter to reach 28 mph, and the 1.3 kWh battery can be recharged in a little over two hours and gives the scooter a range of 21 miles.
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Segway-Ninebot, currently the largest scooter supplier for smartphone-based services such as Bird and Lime, has unveiled a semi-autonomous scooter that can make its way to a charging station when its battery runs low.
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The big picture: In total, 12 companies have applied for five permits, including scooter-centric startups Bird and Lime, original scooter brand Razor, and some lesser-known newcomers in addition to the two ride-hailing giants.
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There are also front and rear lights on the scooter (including brake lights and a daytime running light), and Audi is promising Bluetooth connectivity that will let you customize the scooter and will offer theft protection.
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For instance, one potentially major obstacle to the wave of scooter startups is the fact that several cities already seem fed up with the craze, with some regulators even moving to ban the electric scooter businesses.
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Police identified the scooter rider as Mark Sands, a 21-year-old UT student from Ireland, who died just one day after suffering critical injuries when the electric scooter he was riding collided with a car.
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For now, it's early days for these scooter companies in San Francisco and the priority is to create demand, increase utilization of each scooter and create an efficient and robust charging system for the electric offerings.
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The San Francisco permit-approved scooter company Skip claims its emphasis on safety is what makes it an attractive choice for cities and why it was able to beat out established scooter companies like Bird and Lime.
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Bird has been on a tear as of late, between actively raising a massive D round at a $2.5 billion valuation and having been one of the first scooter startups to deploy its own custom-built scooter.
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The impressive design — along with the battery swap technology and scooter-sharing solution — give the company an edge over charge-only options like BMW's electric C Evolution scooter (though the BMW C Evolution is admittedly more powerful).
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Bird, the two-year-old electric scooter sharing company, recently announced the Bird One, a scooter you can buy and own for $1,300 but that also only offers a front motor brake and a rear drum brake.
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Sky News and The Guardian said that the crash is believed to be the first fatal crash involving an electric scooter in the UK. It is not known what kind of scooter was involved in the crash.
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The motorized scooter-share noted that its scooter trips cut more than 445,000 pounds of carbon emissions — a key point the company is trying to make for why it should be allowed to continue operating in cities.
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The company says it might offer the scooter as an optional accessory for E-tron buyers who could then charge the scooter in their car trunks and use it to scoot the final leg of their journey.
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Portland says companies that provide more than two to three trips on average per scooter each day in East Portland will be eligible to increase their fleet, a policy that tracks with what e-scooter firms want.
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Related: Cities give scooter companies a second chance Bird said it is launching a rental service because scooter dropoff points have generally been placed in downtown areas, making the service inaccessible to commuters who live farther out.
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On the scooter front, there are now nine companies operating in Paris.
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With this sort of pressure, how long will London remain scooter free?
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Bieber also got a shout-out from his longtime manager Scooter Braun.
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Ford confirmed Thursday it has agreed to buy scooter-sharing company Spin.
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An electric scooter that doesn't look or run like a kid's toy.
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" She continued, "Scott (Scooter) was excited to work and build with you.
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However, more customers is only one important piece of the scooter game.
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Anyway, one thing I know is both Scooter and I love you.
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Now in his golden years, Scooter still rises at 6 every morning.
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This marks Bird's first move outside of the kick scooter space. 5.
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For Bird, the pay can vary between $3 to $20 per scooter.
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Bolt, another scooter company, envisions autonomous scooters that deliver themselves to customers.
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"What if the scooter somehow wandered on its own and went rogue?"
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That's how much revenue each individual scooter brings in for the company.
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This scooter, on the other hand, would presumably be far more affordable.
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Neuron's "next-gen" scooter will "come to market pretty soon," he said.
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In Europe, one of Gogoro's main partners is scooter-sharing service Coup.
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Then there's Bird, the company that really spurred the e-scooter trend.
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Gotcha, the bike- and scooter-share service, has got you to covered.
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Usher, Jermaine and Scooter Braun mugged for the camera during the party.
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Go deeper: Still smarting from Uber, cities wise up about scooter data
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The unit economics of the scooter-sharing business is overall pretty terrible.
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He said he considers scooter-riding an important part of his recovery.
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Electric scooter startup Bird, the one worth $2 billion, is going international.
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There's been a rise of scooter rider injuries, and two reported fatalities.
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Deep-fried Twinkies and humans on electric scooter carts were the norm.
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" She continued, "Scott (Scooter) was excited to work and build with you.
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Anyway, One thing I know is both scooter and I love you.
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Enter a credit card and scan a barcode to unlock the scooter.
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Meanwhile, Uber and Lyft are themselves getting into the electric scooter game.
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There are plenty of threats to scooter riders for researchers to track.
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Those include freight hauling, food delivery and electric bike and scooter rentals.
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Five people had serious bleeding in the brain from a scooter crash.
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The Lime scooter rider was traveling the wrong way down an interstate.
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Coup is launching its second city for its electric scooter-sharing service.
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I would say for shorter distances there's nothing better than the scooter.
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Experts agree that bike lanes can be equally useful to scooter riders.
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You also won't be able to park a scooter on the pavement.
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A Lime scooter on the streets of Portland, Oregon in May 2019.
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"I was able to control any of the scooter features without authentication."
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Even worse: During the charging process, the scooter is out of commission.
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Scooter Braun marked Justin Bieber's 25th birthday with an adorable Instagram post.
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Now 38, he was more concerned Thursday about a scooter he'd rented.
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I'd find and unlock a scooter near the Presidio in San Francisco.
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I would keep going north along the coast until the scooter died.
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But city overlords have another, perhaps quieter, constituency to satisfy: scooter lovers.
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He&aposs gone out of his way even to pardon Scooter Libby.
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Skip's new 28.7-inch retractable steel wire acts as a scooter lock.
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Now, of course, scooter and e-bike sharing services are suddenly booming.
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But Bird hasn't done enough to justify why this scooter is necessary.
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Billy Hamilton, Eugenio Suarez and Scooter Gennett went deep for the Reds.
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"I hope they're responsible about their use of the scooter," Taylor said.
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Hive, a new e-scooter company, is also part of Free Now.
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Anyway, One thing I know is both Scooter and I love you.
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On Equity, the team talks about new funding rounds for scooter startups.
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Madrid has 18 different e-scooter-share companies operating within city limits.
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In Singapore, 1003 scooter companies have applied to bring its fleets there.
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Ariana's manager, Scooter Braun, said early Sunday morning that Ariana and co.
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Like most self-balancing devices, the scooter responds to your body positioning.
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Helmet use is quickly becoming a growing problem for e-scooter companies.
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Out of all the things, you'd buy a self-driving motor scooter?
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People can pre-order the scooter now and receive it this summer.
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Scooter shares are becoming more popular and a bigger idea right now.
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Translation: They know Scooter won't throw Cruz to the music business wolves.
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Developing... BONUS: Xcooter is a rad electric scooter with an unfortunate name
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Meanwhile, Uber also operates an electric scooter service under the JUMP brand.
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And if you're not riding a scooter, you're probably complaining about them.
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But I have a confession to make: I've always hated scooter shares.
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"We're the first permitted [dockless electric scooter] system operating anywhere" Dastoor believes.
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Puncture-proof wheels and a bigger battery mean a bigger e-scooter.
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Also I can't believe I left Scooter Gennett off the original tweet.
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Scooter Gennett is off to a blistering start for the Brewers, batting .
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Uber, Google and top VCs poured $335 million into scooter startup Lime.
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From there, they pull up a map and find the nearest scooter.
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Paris tries to end an electric-scooter-share fracas with new regulations.
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E-scooter start-ups are annoying and wildly overvalued, say the skeptics.
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This isn't the only scooter that can be used with one hand.
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Dockless scooter companies are having a hard time breaking ground in Britain.
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The MiniFalcon scooter is one of the most compact scooters on Indiegogo.
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In July, Scooter Braun purchased Big Machine Records, Taylor Swift's first label.
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The 26-pound scooter can be folded and towed like a trolley.
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But as he begins to push the scooter, it begins loudly beeping.
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This new funding would make Bird the first unicorn e-scooter company.
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" Hannity described the scooter ride as "interesting, chaotic and kind of fun.
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The scooter has a higher up-front cost, but it's more robust.
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The breaks on the lime scooter were not working during the incident.
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Automatic headlights are controllable from both the app and the scooter itself.
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U+13F6F4 SCOOTER The lowest form of transportation and a useless emoji.
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Still, no other scooter companies are allowed to operation within city limits.
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I just stared at him and then drove away on a scooter.
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Go deeper: How the scooter economy differs from the ride-hail economy
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That's twice what electric scooter companies have decided is a safe speed.
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Skip and Scoot are the only companies awarded scooter permits in SF
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"The concept of Scooter Experience will be worthless," he said by email.
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And Lime pays up to $12 per scooter, depending on the location.
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The startup is launching an e-scooter monthly subscription service in Germany.
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Bird, the leading scooter company, now has a valuation of $2 billion.
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Ola itself has committed about $100 million in scooter rental startup Vogo.
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If you can't complete it, maybe you shouldn't be riding a scooter.
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I am a scooter fan, I'm sorry to say, but I am.
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According to Streetsblog, Jump has only paused scooter operations in Sacramento, California.
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According to Streetsblog, Jump has only paused scooter operations in Sacramento, California.
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Scooter start-ups didn't always comply with restrictions, according to the report.
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DESIGNER CHOICE Solow & Co. was recommended by Mr. Bieber's manager, Scooter Braun.
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Broken pieces of the boy's blue scooter were scattered across the street.
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However, the city limited Jump's and Lyft's scooter counts to 250 each.
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Each day on the scooter, I have at least two almost-accidents.
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"Hey, big man!" she shouts, zipping past him on her scooter. Nothing.
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He spoke to the government and scooter companies, but to no avail.
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Atlanta banned nighttime riding this summer following a string of scooter deaths.
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So riding a scooter is a clear winner over taking a car.
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It's true that scooter companies have not exactly covered themselves in glory.
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It started off as Ryan, but they ended up calling me Scooter.
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Skip recently announced a scooter with modular parts, which makes repairs easier.
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It's not as easy as jumping on a scooter and just going.
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BA: More so than just writing like a scooter or a bicycle.
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A new medical study finds a spike in scooter-related head injuries.
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But developer Victor Pontis' creation is facing scrutiny from bigger scooter companies.
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It's since changed with a redirect to each scooter companies' specific app.
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As of Sunday afternoon, Scooter Map was up and running as usual.Â
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Let's use Spin, which pays $221 per scooter charged, as an example.
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It has launched scooter rentals in selected cities and also food delivery.
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There's been a lot of back and forth with Scooter and Taylor.
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No mixed feelings here ... the Biebers and Demi stand strong behind Scooter.
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Last month, three separate scooter-related skull fractures happened in one week.
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Overall, the study estimated there were 14,651 e-scooter injuries in 2018.
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Electric scooter company Unagi has a powerful new model to show off.
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Last month, Hyman helped bail out a struggling rival scooter company, Unicorn.
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Making "scooter graffiti" by rubbing the spinning black wheels on the pavement.
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They were unable to provide the number of bike or scooter seizures.
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Can you never find a scooter to rent when you need one?
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FROM SCOOTER TO SUV Some entrepreneurs have simply faded from public view.
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Generally, cities have restricted scooter companies to deploying only several hundred scooters.
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Price also wanted to get Scooter Gennett's hot bat into the lineup.
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A similar experience led the firm to Lime, the electric scooter startup.
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The environment is more complex because of pedestrians, cyclists and scooter riders.
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But the bright red of Uber's Jump scooter was hard to resist.
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I expected my scooter to turn into a pumpkin at any moment.
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My mission, should I choose to accept it: ride a Bird scooter.
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However, scooter apps need to focus on communicating more effectively with riders.
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Can a moped-share company escape the pitfalls of the scooter business?
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Gotta hand it to Scooter ... dude keeps landing bigger and bigger clients.
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And people didn't have to be riding the scooters to be injured by them, the team discovered: another 21 people were either hit by a scooter, fell over a parked scooter, or hurt themselves trying to lift one.
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Given how new scooters are, there's no consistent etiquette for riding an electric scooter, and so pedestrians, drivers, and cyclists can't necessarily anticipate what a scooter will do in an intersection, which can lead to conflicts (read: collisions).
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Melbourne will be next, with preview electric scooter rides offered for locals heading to and from the Melbourne Cup horse race on Tuesday, and a three-month scooter pilot launched at Monash University in Melbourne earlier this week.
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In a survey on shared e-scooter use in Paris, 30 percent of "local" users (residents, as opposed to visitors) said they would have made their last trip using public transportation had shared e-scooter services not existed.
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Like the M1, Inboard originally planned to sell the scooter directly to customers for $1,299, with the startup promising a smoother, more stable, and more durable ride than what's offered by shared scooter startups like Bird or Lime.
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So when Xiaomi offered to send over a scooter to test out, meaning that for once I wouldn't have to share my e-scooter with strangers and vandals (or pay 15 cents per minute), I hopped right on.
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The scooter, as a technology, has existed since at least the early part of the 20th century, primarily as a toy for children (you can see a little girl riding one in Fritz Lang's classic film M). The modern effort to establish scooters as an adult transportation option date to the introduction of the foldable Razor scooter in 1999, which launched a brief but intense scooter fad.
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A burglar in Indianapolis was said to have escaped on a Bird scooter after robbing a man in his home in September, and yet another Bird scooter was reportedly used in a phone robbery incident in Baltimore in December.
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Scooter companies seem keen on rewiring the transportation systems of our cities, but it's not entirely clear that they'll take responsibility for the unintended consequences of their technology: A scooter ensured that I wasn't late to an important meeting.
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The scooter is a cool $1,299 — Ninebot and other Segway scooters normally start at around $500 — and comes with $100 in Bird ride credit for those times you don't want to deal with your own scooter (whenever that is).
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Tier Mobility, the European e-scooter rentals startup, adds new COO and CCO to executive team Following Tier Mobility's $60 million Series B late last year, the e-scooter rentals startup has been busy bolstering its C-suite. 7.
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The key innovation with the latest batch of scooters is the rental business model: Download the app on your smartphone for a scooter company — Bird, Lime, Skip, Scoot, or Spin — and use the map to find a nearby scooter.
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Things aren't so much bumpy as roadblocked entirely for scooter sharing in the latter city where regulations adopted by Barcelona town hall in 903 essentially ban the on-demand scooter model, at least as startups prefer to operate it.
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While a handful of electric scooter startups are duking it out on the streets (and sidewalks) of San Francisco, seven-year-old motorized scooter company Scoot is expanding to its second city, Barcelona, and adding a new vehicle: bicycles.
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"As such, we are encouraging all those who purchased this product to immediately stop using the Xiaomi Mi Electric Scooter (M365) until they have determined whether their scooter is part of the recall," Xiaomi stated in its safety warning.
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Within the same week as the bike and scooter ban in San Francisco, I noticed that there were suddenly many bike and scooter shares being abandoned on streets and sidewalks in San Mateo, where they are not yet regulated.
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But this new scooter is bigger and made with a more durable frame.
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What's unique about Boosted's scooter is its thumb wheel for accelerating and decelerating.
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The researchers concluded that additional training may be necessary for e-scooter riders.
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The researchers found there was one injury for every 5,000 e-scooter trips.
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Chinese scooter maker Niu raised $63 million in its U.S. IPO this week.
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People can pre-order the scooter now and receive it this summer. 903.
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George has been on the mend since his scooter accident on July 10.
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Grande's manager, Scooter Braun, did not respond to requests for comment by Reuters.
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CityMapper also recently launched scooter, cycling and moped transportation options on its platform.
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For now, all you can do is locate the nearest bike or scooter.
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I just updated our scooter and plan to ride it again on Friday.
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"Scooter called her but she hasn't responded to him yet," the source said.
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Bird just announced 10 million scooter rides since launching about one year ago.
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Scooter company Skip is offering $5 off trips to the polls, as well.
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One mile also happens to be the average length of Lime's scooter rides.
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We just got Axl cruising through LAX on one of those scooter thingys.
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It's also controlled remotely, allowing Furze to limit the speed of the scooter.
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Scooter fits in his "me-time" with the occasional bath and a blowdry.
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This week, we're featuring vocalist, producer, filmmaker, and professional scooter rider Oliver Tree.
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I expect you to write a second part to your scooter story, okay?
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But I sure hope scooter enthusiasts will realize they have to be careful.
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In this way, juicers can claim a scooter before arriving at its location.
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Just yesterday, though, Billboard reported that West split from longtime manager Scooter Braun.
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Since then the electric bike and scooter-sharing craze has stormed into cities.
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"The terrorist made a mistake… they picked the wrong goddamn show," Scooter added.
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That grates with other bike and scooter operators, including Lime and Uber's Jump.
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Consolidation came to ride hail and it also will come to scooter-share.
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In addition, members will get three complimentary bike and scooter trips per month.
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Lyft's scooter-sharing service, which launched in Denver, is now in six cities.
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Razor, a longtime scooter-maker, is launching an app-based service this summer.
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Kiki is a kid who doesn't need a bicycle, scooter or roller skates.
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Unlike the ride-sharing market, electric scooter operators are entirely dependent upon cities.
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However, one fan went too far, and Grande's manager, Scooter Braun, got involved.
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Cincinnati Reds' Scooter Gennett did it June 103 against the St. Louis Cardinals.
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And Ford recently helped launch an electric scooter sharing project at Purdue University.
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This is probably because the choice to get on a scooter is impromptu.
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Other scooter rental companies use Segway Ninebot scooters in their fleet, including Bird.
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The scooter craze is hitting Latin America and Grin is greasing the wheels.
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For months, electric scooter businesses were securing large rounds at even larger valuations.
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Scooter Gennett exited the game after the fourth inning with left groin tightness.
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She uses a scooter and wears a boot to keep the pressure off.
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"The scooter market in Europe is still relatively new," says the Wind CEO.
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The publication conceded this isn't a complete picture of scooter-sharing and crashes.
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Yamaha and Honda have partnered on the development of an electric scooter, too.
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As a teenager, Brandon's doctor recommended he begin using a wheelchair or scooter.
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Kanye has told record execs he thinks Scooter is a "young David Geffen."
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I grab a Bird scooter ($1.16) and whiz my way to the metro.
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Sensing an opportunity, some smaller scooter manufacturers are emerging to challenge Ninebot's hegemony.
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In Santa Monica, for example, Uber is fending off scooter-sharing company Bird.
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Investors are still pouring millions into scooter startups, albeit sometimes at flat valuations.
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Penalties are levied per infringement, so essentially per scooter deployed on the street.
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Now, a different sort of scooter has come to town: "Bird" electric scooters.
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Meanwhile, Voi isn't the only European e-scooter startup developing its own hardware.
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Scooter startup Bird is betting on the French market in a significant way.
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Paris is an important market for Bird, and all scooter startups in general.
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Because scooter-sharing programs are still very new, cities have been caught flatfooted.
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Enter for a chance to win a Xiaomi Mi Electric Scooter See Details
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It's been beta-testing in-app bike and scooter options since last June.
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You'll have a lot of things in the mobility space, including scooter riding.
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A fun ride from Stratechery on the business strategy of e-scooter-share.
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"One thing i know is both scooter and i love you," Bieber posted.
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The e-scooter startup had previously raised around $3 million earlier this year.
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ARROYO: My feeling is, if you&aposre over 12, get off the scooter.
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After Scooter Gennett flied out, Duvall doubled to bring in Barnhart and Votto.
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A man parks his rented dockless scooter outside of a restaurant in Atlanta.
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The scooter is available to order Wednesday and will start shipping this summer.
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Chip and Joanna Gaines are trading in their hard hats for scooter helmets!
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Two top scooter companies, Bird and Lime, said they support the CDC study.
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European electric scooter startup Voi Technology raised an additional $30 million in capital.
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Now, the electric scooter craze looks set to gain further ground in Europe.
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Bird's announcement comes ahead of Boosted's anticipated electric scooter launch on May 15.
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The previous oldest cat on record was Scooter, a Siamese from Mansfield, Texas.
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In a way this is good news for the larger e-scooter movement.
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Might be time for an LA road trip to get your scooter action.
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Every single hoverboard — AKA self-balancing scooter — sold in the U.S. is unsafe.
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The map also shows battery level and which company the scooter is from.
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And sometimes, it's the scooter companies that can get all hot and bothered.
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The scooter craze is hitting Latin America and Grin is greasing the wheels.
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Young Scooter returns for a guest verse, but it's just Future's voice otherwise.
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But the timing of the meeting coincides with the UK's first scooter fatality.
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The YouTuber Emily Hartridge died after her electric scooter collided with a truck.
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You can buy the current model of the Ojo commuter scooter for $1,999.99.
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But now Fantasmo is focusing on the urgent use case of scooter accountability.
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Here he is riding a scooter while wearing the one ring, for instance.
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The scooter isn't cheap; it's priced at €2,000 ($2,244 on today's exchange rate).
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Segway is using Indiegogo to fund the long-range electric scooter Ninebot Max.
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Taylor Swift is battling Scooter Braun over the ownership of her old music.
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Make way for a hefty e-scooter that can take care of itself.
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While that litigation is ongoing, the scooter tensions are likely here to stay.
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Users call up an app to find a scooter nearby and unlock it.
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When the rider is done, the scooter can be left and locked anywhere.
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Talent manager Scooter Braun is in a very public feud with Taylor Swift.
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One of the biggest problems electric scooter companies must solve is distributed charging.
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How can an electric scooter ride-sharing company like Bird possibly make money?
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You should be at home watching Murder, She Wrote, not on a scooter.
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Ride-hailing, bike and scooter companies probably raised less money than you thought
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The design also takes into account room for bike and scooter-share services.
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That promise is made bigger by the regulatory structure of the scooter market.
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Skip, much like Scoot, is another small player in the e-scooter market.
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But Uber is not operating the only electric scooter service in Santa Monica.
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Some anti-scooter vigilantes have expressed their discontent by creatively vandalizing the vehicles.
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There's a huge market opportunity as scooter-sharing companies are booming in Europe.
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This makes it "not a toy, but a vehicle-grade scooter," Russakow said.
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Tiffany's scooter, retrofitted with rose-gold tires, is made for Instagram and Snapchat.
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I grab the leftovers from last night and head home on my scooter.
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Mr. Libby, who goes by Scooter, was pardoned by President Trump in 2018.
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Was that, you know, in the scooter business, Uber's hidden in plain sight.
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Somewhere I was where they were three or four people on a scooter.
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All nonessential travel via bike, car, public transit, scooter, or foot is banned.
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When confronted, he said, they fled, one of them on a mobility scooter.
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With the newly introduced Skip, eight scooter companies now operate on Austin's turf.
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A 27-year-old man was killed in a scooter accident in Florida.
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Like Uber, Lyft sees bike and scooter rentals as a way to expand.
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Making sure that e-scooter users wear helmets is easier than done, though.
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Uber's Jump, for example, is proposing a scooter parking rack to avoid clutter.
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And for those purposes, the electric scooter works considerably better than a bicycle.
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Unlike Bird One, though, the scooter won't be available for purchase as well.
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And the scooter companies appear aware of that, at least on the surface.
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My office was evacuated today because an electric scooter exploded and caught fire.
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The scooter sharing company will face stiff competition when it launches in Germany.
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The scooter beeped, telling me that it was unlocked, and I was off.
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In June, Grow hit 10 million trips across its bikes and scooter operations.
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With the Bird Two scooter, Scoot will have additional theft and vandalism protection.
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Several other states also don't require helmet-wearing while on a motorized scooter.
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E-scooter accessibility goes beyond cost to ride and availability in certain neighborhoods.
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I was concerned about the fringes on my rug, no problem for Scooter.
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Uber is partnering with electric scooter start-up Lime, the companies said Monday.
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Ride-hailing giant Ola has invested $100 million in scooter rental startup Vogo.
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Meanwhile, all other scooter and bike rental companies have complied with LA's requirements.
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Billy Hamilton, Eugenio Suarez and Scooter Gennett hit solo homers for the Reds.
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His brother said Yatinder was driving a scooter when a bullet hit him.
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Lime recently unveiled its Gen 3 scooter, which utilizes gear from other manufacturers.
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Another scooter manufacturer, Xiaomi, reportedly has asked Lyft to stop using its scooters.
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Marshmello, Martin Garrix, Michael Bay, Marc Anthony, Scooter Braun, Nikita Dragun and will.i.
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The Taylor Swift-Scooter Braun drama has been secretly stewing behind closed doors.
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Miss the Italian Vespa scooter you coveted when Vespa scooters were in fashion?
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They travel by foot, by bus, by motor scooter and even by pedicab.
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Honda Motorcycle and Scooter India said a spokesman was not available to comment.
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"We put out a scooter that was not interesting to people," he said.
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Uber and Lyft have responded by launching their own scooter services this fall.
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Since launching through Kickstarter, Boosted has introduced multiple boards and its own scooter.
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Cincinnati 2B Scooter Gennett is 8-for-15 in his last four games.
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Workers for the Ford-owned scooter-share company Spin unionize in San Francisco.
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The luxury scooter company also offers a four-wheeler for just under $6,000.
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My very first rental was a Lime scooter outside of the subway station.
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When people think "scooter," the Italian classic is what they have in mind.
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A Consumer Reports investigation counted 8 scooter-related deaths as of June 2019.
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It's also cut back its electric bike and scooter operations in several cities.
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E-scooter sharing programs would not be allowed to operate in the borough.
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An old woman in pink sits on a scooter, looking at her watch.
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Meanwhile, Ford is buying the e-scooter startup Spin for around $100 million.
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The early days of ride-sharing looked a lot like the Scooter Wars.
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Natalie Imbruglia and Hoku have been added to #WeStandWithTaylor after unfollowing Scooter Braun.
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The company, which lets you book an electric scooter via an Uber-like app and drop off the scooter anywhere once you're done, launched in Santa Monica in September 2017 but has already seen more than 500,000 rides on its platform.
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WATCH: George Clooney Released from Hospital After Scooter Collides with Car in Italy: Reports On July 10, the actor was rushed to the hospital after his scooter slammed head-on into a car that appeared to turn into his lane.
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But what the Santa Monica-based startup didn't say at the time was that Bird Platform would be targeted at aspiring scooter entrepreneurs who live in countries outside the US and Europe, where Bird operates its own branded scooter-sharing service.
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Lime, Bird and other leading scooter providers do provide free helmets to riders and don't encourage poor scooter etiquette, but ensuring riders actually carry helmets or don't do stupid things like travel the wrong way down a busy road is impossible.
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Before we get into the question of whether a three-wheeled scooter really is the future, as Ram said in a phone interview, here are the details of the iTank: "It's not a scooter, and it's not a motorcycle," said Ram.
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They're also not designed with rental logistics in mind, and even something as simple as a hot swappable battery can reduce the cost of running an e-scooter service, as more scooters remain in motion, potentially increasing revenue per scooter.
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Hjelm thinks Germany will quickly become one of the world's biggest e-scooter markets and its new rugged scooter features brakes and indicator lights that meet strict German regulations, which the Voi CEO believes are likely to be adopted elsewhere.
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The report points out that Bird and Lime, two of the top e-scooter rental companies encourage riders to wear helmets, and insist that only one person should ride a scooter at a time and riders should be 18 or older.
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It's common in LA to rent a scooter, then discover the handlebar is loose or the acceleration is sluggish, end the ride and rent another scooter from the same brand or a competitor in hopes of getting one that works right.
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Incident Date: 12/8/2018My 22 year old daughter was using a Lime Electric Scooter in Old Town, Scottsdale AZ. The sidewalk took a sharp turn and the scooter was unable to stop to slow down to take the corner.
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Uber and Lyft are once again in competition as they have both applied for San Francisco's limited scooter-sharing permits — and while there are overarching similarities in their plans, there are also some key differences, including picking different scooter manufacturers.
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Parking: The company says it will work with local merchants to establish scooter parking areas, and periodically prompt riders to snap and submit a photo of how they parked their scooter to help keep scooters from obstructing roads and sidewalks.
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So other than in the United States, you can teach me how to ride a scooter, you can unlock my scooter for me on your account and you can unlock several scooters, and we can go on a group ride.
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The scooter market is even creating extra earning opportunities for "teens and young professionals," who can get paid anywhere from $5 to $20 per scooter by companies like Bird to charge any scooters whose batteries have died, according to The Atlantic.
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We took a farewell photo with the scooter, broke out the bus and ferry schedules and tried to recalibrate our romantic expectations, a bit embarrassed and bewildered that the other middle-aged scooter riders were willing to go out again.
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And, with the start of a new semester at UT-Austin, university officials announced new rules and fines for scooter use and indicated more changes are ahead, including dropping scooter speed limits on campus from 15 mph to 8 mph.
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Meanwhile Uber, which owns Jump, offers free bike and scooter trips to people who sign up for its Ride Pass subscription service while Lyft's subscription plan, Lyft Pink, is about $20 a month and includes discounted scooter and bike rides.
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Residents can now cruise wide pavements, on city-sponsored bikes and scooter-sharing programmes.
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GIGOT: I really do think the Scooter Libby pardon, Dan, was a terrific act.
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Bird, in partnership with Okai, designed and manufactured the scooter from the ground up.
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Last month, Bird announced 10 million scooter rides since launching about one year ago.
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Last night in Cincinnati, Reds left fielder Scooter Gennett had a very good week.
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Lime is currently the only e-scooter competitor Uber will promote in its app.
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Fitzgerald indicted I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, a top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney.
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Just this week Los Angeles had its first DUI case involving an e-scooter.
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Earlier this month, 13 reports of scooter-involved crashes have come in since then.
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Kapten is thinking about integrating Intelligent Apps' scooter service Hive in its app, though.
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Unlocking a scooter often requires a credit card, a driver's license, and a smartphone.
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Riding smartly, Superpedestrian wants to put some "brains" into the scooter fleets out there.
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Normally, renting a Bird scooter costs $1 to unlock and 15 cents per minute.
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Electric scooter and bike-share company Lime is not giving up on San Francisco.
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Fitzgerald indicted and convicted Dick Cheney's Chief of Staff Lewis "Scooter" Libby in 2005.
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But Russakow sees the proliferation of scooter sharing as a form of free advertisement.
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The valuations for the big scooter companies are, I think, way too high. Bird.
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Yeah, I think that's why ... You don't look quite as stupid on a scooter.
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Scooter Braun says that he once thought Justin Bieber would die in his sleep.
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Gogoro is expanding the electric scooter-sharing service it launched in Berlin last August.
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The scooter companies appear to be trying to make amends for their irresponsible beginnings.
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Uber is also eyeing the electric scooter, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi previously told me.
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But the scooter companies only enrolled 43 Portlanders in the low-income plan overall.
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Segway-Ninebot recently introduced a three-wheeled self-driving scooter called the KickScooter T60.
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Scooter rental operations may resume under normal License Agreement terms beginning on October 11th.
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Uber is even interested in acquiring one of the two biggest e-scooter companies.
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Gogoro has apparently found a decent amount of success with the scooter-sharing model.
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All because of a scooter that, again, I wasn't even riding at the time.
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But they seem to pose an existential threat to the multibillion-dollar scooter industry.
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A 35-year-old YouTuber died in the UK's first fatal electric scooter crash.
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Xiaomi's Mi scooter sells for $448 on Amazon, while Swagtron retails for around $299.
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Drake and Scooter Braun invested in esports company 100 Thieves in October of 2018.
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The scooter, now called the G1 Glider, was originally supposed to launch in February.
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For a breakdown of the ongoing scooter wars, be sure to read TC's overview.
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Superpedestrian's main offering is a sturdier scooter with self-diagnostic and remote management capabilities.
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Bieber's manager, Scooter Braun, also captured the meeting, which he shared on Instagram Monday.
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Only then will people truly feel safe to let their freak scooter flags fly.
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As Vox's Matthew Yglesias writes: the electric scooter works considerably better than a bicycle.
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On the other hand, a scooter can also encourage the use of public transportation.
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Scooter Gennett, Adam Duvall and Devin Mesoraco each had two hits for the Reds.
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The Xiaomi Mi retails for $599 on Amazon while the Ninebot scooter costs $777.
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The city's transportation department reported 700,000 e-scooter trips during the four-month program.
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Austin-based e-scooter platform Goat announced a similar business model over the summer.
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Khloe Kardashian's ex was cruising on a scooter Friday when he was pulled over.
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Uber, meanwhile, acquired Jump last year to spearhead its own scooter and bike strategy.
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As it stands now, there are four companies that have announced electric scooter sharing.
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