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Transportation,
Government,
Administrative/Regulatory

May 11, 2018

Dockless scooters: fun, convenient and unregulated

Only time will tell whether scooter-share companies will have to face the regulatory music.

Sally Morin

Sally Morin Law

Phone: (415) 413-0033

Email: sally@sallymorinlaw.com

Sally Morin is an attorney and the founder of Sally Morin Law (https://www.sallymorinlaw.com/), an all-women personal injury law firm that focuses on helping clients who've been seriously injured in traffic accidents like bicycle, motorcycle and scooter accidents.

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Dockless scooters: fun, convenient and unregulated
A Bird scooter ditched on the sidewalk along the Embarcadero in San Francisco, April 16, 2018 (New York Times News Service)

It's almost as if one night, a spaceship descended upon us and dropped thousands of dockless motorized scooters on the streets of California's most popular cities. We woke up to a new world of convenient, fun and affordable transportation. And yet, few people seem to understand the laws that regulate them.

What Laws Apply?

A "motorized scooter" is defined a...

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