Tuesday, 4 August 2020

UK escooter trial on-hold after ‘underage’ teens ride 12MPH on 70MPH highway


Despite only launching escooter trial schemes about a month ago, one operator in the UK is scaling back following safety and misuse concerns. Middlesbrough in North East England got the country’s first escooter trial last month after Ben Houchen, the Conservative mayor of the area, campaigned to host the pilot, The Independent reports. However, things haven’t gone as well as he’d hoped and it’s leaving a question mark over the future of similar schemes in other parts of England. [Read: How Subaru created the blueprint for selling cars to LGBTQIA+ consumers] Since getting 50 escooters, supplied by mobility startup Ginger,…

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