E-Scooters
The Atlanta Scooter Ban Study Doesn’t Prove What It Thinks It Does
The study went viral for claiming to be a “definitive answer” that a night-time scooter ban increased car use. What it actually demonstrates is something different.
Black People Using E-Scooters Disproportionately Targeted By Police in London
Data obtained by VICE World News indicates the Metropolitan Police are stopping and punishing electric scooter-riders who are Black at higher rates than those who are white.
Lime Has Slashed Pay Rates for Scooter Chargers So Much People Have Stopped Doing It
“At $3.30 you're basically paying Lime for the privilege of charging their scooters for them,” one juicer commented on Reddit. “Fuck that.”
People Have Managed to Turn Those Dinky Little E-Scooters Into Death Traps
In our contemporary quest for radical mortality, millennials saw a 354 percent increase in scooter-related hospital admissions in the last four years.
E-Scooter Workers Just Formed Their First Union
Employees at the the e-scooter company Spin are paving the way for a transformation of app-based work.
Lime e-Scooters Were Modified to Blare Sexual Messages at People
Vandals made the startup's e-scooters blare inappropriate things in an incident the company calls "not smart" and "not funny."
Someone's Going to Get Killed Charging Those E-Scooters
Companies like Lime and Bird encourage competition among contractors, which subjects them to the threat of physical violence for little pay.