How Dangerous Are Electric Scooters? [Infographic]

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Electric scooters, known as e-scooters, are one of the hottest trends sweeping the nation. They are light, compact and ideal for quickly traversing busy urban areas, particularly when used in conjunction with public transport. In many U.S. cities, riders have purchased their own scooters while a network of rental companies such as Bird, Skip and Lime offer them for as little as $1 with a few cents added on for each minute of usage. While the zippy new scooters may seem like a dream for commuters, they can prove extremely dangerous for inexperienced riders navigating through rush hour traffic. There are no official numbers on e-scooter deaths, though fatal accidents are known to have occurred in several cities around the world including Los Angeles, London and Singapore.

How Dangerous Are Electric Scooters? [Infographic]

 

[Mindful]

Would you buy one?

Have you got one?

 

[fncceo]

The biggest danger is humiliation

 

[Mindful]

 

[Mindful]

The biggest danger is humiliation

Surely that's not you?

 

[alang1216]

Electric scooters, known as e-scooters, are one of the hottest trends sweeping the nation. They are light, compact and ideal for quickly traversing busy urban areas, particularly when used in conjunction with public transport. In many U.S. cities, riders have purchased their own scooters while a network of rental companies such as Bird, Skip and Lime offer them for as little as $1 with a few cents added on for each minute of usage. While the zippy new scooters may seem like a dream for commuters, they can prove extremely dangerous for inexperienced riders navigating through rush hour traffic. There are no official numbers on e-scooter deaths, though fatal accidents are known to have occurred in several cities around the world including Los Angeles, London and Singapore.

How Dangerous Are Electric Scooters? [Infographic]

There has already been a fatality here. The county board is trying to establish guidelines but it is a very new thing and they have a ways to go before they'll get it right.

 

[Mindful]

Electric scooters, known as e-scooters, are one of the hottest trends sweeping the nation. They are light, compact and ideal for quickly traversing busy urban areas, particularly when used in conjunction with public transport. In many U.S. cities, riders have purchased their own scooters while a network of rental companies such as Bird, Skip and Lime offer them for as little as $1 with a few cents added on for each minute of usage. While the zippy new scooters may seem like a dream for commuters, they can prove extremely dangerous for inexperienced riders navigating through rush hour traffic. There are no official numbers on e-scooter deaths, though fatal accidents are known to have occurred in several cities around the world including Los Angeles, London and Singapore.

How Dangerous Are Electric Scooters? [Infographic]

There has already been a fatality here. The county board is trying to establish guidelines but it is a very new thing and they have a ways to go before they'll get it right.

There's nowhere for them to go. The pavement or the street?

Too fast for one, and too slow for the other.

 

[alang1216]

Electric scooters, known as e-scooters, are one of the hottest trends sweeping the nation. They are light, compact and ideal for quickly traversing busy urban areas, particularly when used in conjunction with public transport. In many U.S. cities, riders have purchased their own scooters while a network of rental companies such as Bird, Skip and Lime offer them for as little as $1 with a few cents added on for each minute of usage. While the zippy new scooters may seem like a dream for commuters, they can prove extremely dangerous for inexperienced riders navigating through rush hour traffic. There are no official numbers on e-scooter deaths, though fatal accidents are known to have occurred in several cities around the world including Los Angeles, London and Singapore.

How Dangerous Are Electric Scooters? [Infographic]

There has already been a fatality here. The county board is trying to establish guidelines but it is a very new thing and they have a ways to go before they'll get it right.

There's nowhere for them to go. The pavement or the street?

Too fast for one, and too slow for the other.

There are no helmet rules here so it will likely happen again.

 

[james bond]

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I can see why UCLA did the study. It's the #1 transportation of choice there. Helmet laws should be required. Do we need licensing? Probably not.

 

[james bond]

Doesn't make sense. California repealed the helmet law: 2019 Electric Scooter Helmet Laws in California | Walkup Law Offices

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2019 Electric Scooter Helmet Laws in California


Posted on June 19, 2019 in Electric Scooter,Personal Injury

Helmet laws surrounding electric scooters have recently undergone a change in the state of California. Helmet laws are generally put in place to protect motorists from sustaining an injury, should they be involved in an accident, collision, or sustain a fall. The state previously required all riders to wear a helmet, but the recent changes now offer a much less strict approach to the previously held law. The changes are now causing controversy among California residents from both sides.



Previous Helmet Law
California’s previous helmet laws held that all riders – even adult riders – were required to wear a properly fastened and fitting helmet to prevent injury while riding electric scooters. It should be mentioned that this law applied only to motorized scooters, not manually-powered scooters. Any motor scooter operator that was found not wearing a helmet could be fined up to $200.

Some residents found this law restricting for ride-sharing scooter riders, as it limited their use to only those riders who carried a helmet with them, as opposed to residents who found themselves looking to make use of them spontaneously or on occasion.

Current Helmet Law
The new law signed into effect by Governor Jerry Brown, California AB 2989, which was signed into law last year, and went into effect January 1st, 2019, states that individuals under the age of 18 must wear a helmet on all motorized vehicles, including electric scooters of any type. The new law now no longer requires adult riders older than 18 to wear a helmet. However, Governor Brown did leave additional safety measures up to local communities.

Why Did It Change?
Advocates of using electric scooters as a mode of transportation note that the previous law did not necessarily encourage helmet use, but rather the law, in effect, discouraged many riders from using motorized scooters to travel merely because they did not have a helmet with them. Ride-sharing electric scooters, such as those from Bird and Lime, benefit from having riders pick them up and drop them off wherever they are, which meant that potential riders did not always carry a helmet with them. Spokespeople from several of these companies cited the previous law as incredibly damaging to their business."