Electric Scooter Death Machines

Traveling around the country this past summer I noticed that almost every large city I ventured into have these

"Electric Scooters"

lying around.

They are on sidewalks

and on the city streets.

First,

a couple of facts.

These facts are solely based of what I know of the

Califonia Law,

since that is where I live.

The number one thing people should know about driving these

Scooters

in the

Golden State

is,

you have to have a

California Driver's License

to be driving one.

The second thing is,

under the law,

you must be wearing a helmet.

Which no one does.

Third,

you are supposed to be driving them on the street,

not on the sidewalks.

Of course,

we have all seen people riding these things without helmets

and on the sidewalks.

The basic problem with these violations are,

The Police Are Not Enforcing The Law!

Since this is a realative new industry,

there are not a lot of statistics yet on how many deaths per year there are

but there are a growing number of accidents according to the

Business Insider.

By Isobel Asher Hamilton Feb. 6, 2019

An investigation by Consumer Reports has revealed that there have been at least 1,545 accidents in the US involving electric scooters over the past year. Lime (founded January 2017) and Bird (founded April 2017) have been the main players in e-scooter rental, although big ride-sharing companies like Uber and Lyft have been jostling to access the market as well.

On the

APNews

website,

they tell the story of someone who was injured.

By CATHY BUSSEWITZ and AMANDA MORRIS June 6, 2019

Andrew Hardy was crossing the street on an electric scooter in downtown Los Angeles when a car struck him at 50 miles per hour and flung him 15 feet in the air before he smacked his head on the pavement and fell unconscious. The 26-year-old snapped two bones in each leg, broke a thighbone, shattered a kneecap, punctured a lung and fractured three vertebrae in his neck, in addition to sustaining a head injury. “My brother thought I was dead,” said Hardy, who wasn’t wearing a helmet. Doctors told Hardy he’d likely be paralyzed for life. Five months later, he has learned to walk again. But he says he’ll never ride another scooter.

Companies like

Lime

and

Bird

have apps you need to download on your smartphone before you can use their product.

One has

5 Pages

the other

20 Pagers

of the

User License Agreement

you have to agree to before you can use one of their death machines.

Does anyone ever read these

User Agreements?

 I have

and if you don't understand,
what I like to call

Lawer Speak

you are screwed!

This is,

Just Looking Out For Your Safety

Jim Hauenstein,

And,

“A system is corrupt when it is strictly profit-driven, not driven to serve the best interests of its people, but those of multinational corporations.”
- Suzy Kassem -

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