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The great electric scooter backlash - CBS News
In the spring of 2018, the citizens of several American cities awoke to find something new: Thousands of electric scooters, mysteriously deposited all over town, unannounced.
They were put there by a new breed of well-funded companies with one-syllable names (like Bird, Lime, Scoot, Spin and Jump) that want to introduce a cheap, fast, clean way to get around cities like Santa Monica, California. By using an app, a person can find any scooter nearby, charged and available. You point your phone's camera at the scooter's bar code and scan it, and you're ready to go.
The scooters are simple to operate, and give users the freedom of a car, and the fresh air of a bicycle, for the price of taking the bus.
In the spring of 2018, the citizens of several American cities awoke to find something new: Thousands of electric scooters, mysteriously deposited all over town, unannounced.
They were put there by a new breed of well-funded companies with one-syllable names (like Bird, Lime, Scoot, Spin and Jump) that want to introduce a cheap, fast, clean way to get around cities like Santa Monica, California. By using an app, a person can find any scooter nearby, charged and available. You point your phone's camera at the scooter's bar code and scan it, and you're ready to go.
The scooters are simple to operate, and give users the freedom of a car, and the fresh air of a bicycle, for the price of taking the bus.