Transportation,
Administrative/Regulatory
Oct. 10, 2018
Financial responsibility laws should cover electric scooters
It’s time to plug this gaping hole in our motor vehicle laws.
Scooters on the sidewalk in San Francisco, April 16, 2018. (New York Times News Service)
Somebody must pay: Electric scooters are all the rage, with cities across the country allowing scooter rental companies to offer cheap rides with minimal oversight. But injuries resulting from those rides are far from cheap. Emergency room physicians are seeing a sharp increase in scooter-related injuries, two men died in September while riding scooters, and scooter rental companies like Lime and Bird avoid legal liability for users' injuries through terms of service...
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