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Electric scooters aren’t quite as climate-friendly as we thought - The Verge

Electric scooter companies like to tout their green credentials, frequently reminding riders that every two-wheeled trip they take can help reduce carbon emissions and fight climate change — but the truth is much more complicated.

These things are a disgusting blight. They litter the city streets and are yet another example of companies making huge profits by exploiting the idea of environmentalism. not actually engaging in it. Isn't it obvious that people would be using them to replace walking and not driving? ADULTS, the real kind, the kind who own grownup vehicles, aren't going to take these things somewhere where you can take a car. As usual, they don't even acknowledge how unsafe these things are for the riders and pedestrians, because the riders almost never ride them in the street-where they'd probably be flattened by a car anyway.

"Their findings — which are backed up by other surveys of scooter riders — were that 49 percent of riders would have biked or walked, 34 percent would have used a car, 11 percent would have taken a bus, and 7 percent wouldn’t have taken the trip at all. "

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Lime’s electric scooters will be able to tell when you’re too drunk to ride - The Verge

Lime co-founder and executive chairman Brad Bao chatted with The Verge’s editor-in-chief Nilay Patel and senior transportation reporter Andrew J. Hawkins about what’s next for the e-scooter revolution in this week’s Vergecast interview. Bao discussed how

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E-Scooters Sent Hundreds Of People In Southern California To The ER, A Study Shows

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

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For a small fee, entrepreneurs can now manage their own fleet of Bird e-scooters

Bird wants to help you start your own electric scooter business.

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Electric scooters are inspiring lazy people to get creative - The Verge

The scooter craze sweeping the nation is now over a year old, which means its been around long enough to start producing its own distinct subcultures, including those who would prefer to sit while riding, the "lazy geniuses".

I love that some people apply ingenuity to things like this.

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Lyft brings its electric scooters to Santa Monica

You no longer have to be a Denver resident to try Lyft's electric scooters. The two-wheeled transports are now available in Santa Monica, California under a ci...

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Fed-up locals are setting electric scooters on fire, smearing them with poop and burying them at sea

As cities from Santa Monica to Los Angeles to Beverly Hills struggle to control the rapid proliferation of electric pay-per-mile scooters, Westside vandals are waging a guerrilla war against the devices and destroying them in increasingly imaginative ways

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Could a Scooter Start-up Really Be Worth $1 Billion? | Vanity Fair

Bird, the brainchild of a former Uber and Lyft executive, is seeking funding at a 10-figure valuation. But could the scooter company really be worth $1 billion? It depends who you ask.

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The mad, twisted tale of the electric scooter craze - CNET

Betrayal, clipped brake cables and chop shops. And that's just in San Francisco.