Electric scooters, or e-scooters, have exploded into the limelight with rentable scooter companies such as Lime, Bird, Spin and Scoot depositing hundreds of thousands of the vehicles in major metropolitan locations around the world. With many e-scooter riders hopping on for the very first time, however, these vehicles can prove dangerous. Inexperienced riders and...
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Electric scooters have grown significantly in popularity over the last few years thanks to the advent of rentable dockless e-scooters. Companies such as Lime, Bird and Spin have brought hundreds of thousands of rentable e-scooters to most major cities around the U.S. The rise of e-scooters has been controversial, however, with many cities...
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