Should Sidewalk Electric Scooters Be Removed?
Post date: Dec 18, 2018 6:24:1 PM
Should the $1 Sidewalk Electric Scooters be Removed?
By: Alan Huang & Zeseo Guzman
Electric scooters are layed everywhere around sidewalks of San Francisco. Companies such as Lime, Spin, Skip, and Bird own those scooters and are getting many complaints.
The first founders of these electric scooters was Gao Lufeng who made electric scooters called NineBot. Then other electric scooters company started making their own scooters like Bird, Lime, etc. The scooters were put on sidewalks of many cities and needed $1 to be rode.
After paying the $1 through an app, you can be speeding through the streets going about 25 mph! “I will never ride an electric scooter that fast because there are pedestrians on the sidewalks” says Shun Liu, an 8th grader. The scooters are fun to ride but can be deadly. A man named Carlos Sanchez-Martin got crashed by a SUV while riding a Lime scooter and sadly died. The scooters do not provide you with a helmet and that can be dangerous riding a scooter going 25 mph. Rudy Hernandez says, “I once saw a scooter stuck in a tree.”
Overall, these electric scooters are good and bad. The good side is that the scooter is a quick transportation to get the somewhere. The bad side is that the scooters can be dangerous to ride. What do you think about the electric scooters?
