The Micro-Mobility War: How Paris, One Of The World's Largest Scooter Rental Markets, Came To Ban Them

28 Sep 2023 | Abstracted from Forbes

"...the April referendum in which Parisians rose to vote on the future of the rental versions of the things. The vox populi was very nearly unanimous: The full-on ban of rental scooters earned an astonishing eighty-nine percent of the votes.

"Last year, there were three deaths from a total of 400-plus electric-mobility vehicles, which resulted in 459 people being injured..."

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