Kyah Jordan, 20, has become the first person in the UK to be found guilty of drunk driving while using an electric scooter. She was found guilty of the act by the Isle of Wight Magistrates’ Court and is banned from driving for two years.
Last weekend, hundreds of car enthusiasts came together to Canberra’s Lonsdale Street. In addition to the illegal event forcing road closures and leading to cars being impounded, some attendees were filmed doing burnouts on e-scooters. Beam, the electric scooter rental company, is working to identify those individuals to refer them to the police.
A new app called ScootRoute is the first of its kind and designed for traveling by motor scooter, e-scooter, and e-bike. The app was developed by Founder and CEO Meghan Braley, who’s been riding a Vespa for ten years. The app took 18 months to build.
In San Francisco, Lime has expanded its fleet to 2,000 e-scooters after being granted permission from the city to take over the permit of JUMP—the former competitor it purchased in May for $170 million.
The popularity of e-scooters has been on the rise—particularly since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. As the devices have become more widely used, pedestrian-involved crashes have also increased.