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“Love hurts. So can crashing while riding on a standing electric scooter. Or being hit by such a scooter. Or tripping over such a scooter.

While many people seem to love cruising along on these scooters, a study just published in JAMA Network Open showed how such accidents could wheelie, wheelie hurt and raised questions about whether the risk of riding such scooters is being taken seriously enough…

To ride such a contraption, all you have to do is use a smartphone app to unlock the scooter, stand on the narrow platform, engage the handlebars, and begin scooting along at speeds that can go up to 15 miles per hour. After finishing your ride, shedding the scooter is simpler that getting rid of disposable underwear. You can just drop the scooter off at your destination, regardless of where that may be…

Gee whiz, what could possibly go wrong when people are riding among pedestrians on motorized scooters without wearing helmets or following traffic laws?”

— Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes
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