Fires Ignited by Lithium Ion Batteries In Bikes, Scooters and Cars – Here’s What You Need To Know!
By Lauren Fix In less than two years, 11 people perished and 251 were injured in NYC alone, due to fires sparked by lithium-ion batteries used to power e-bikes and e-scooters, according to the FDNY. In 2021, 4 people died and 79 were injured in 104 lithium-ion battery fueled blazes in homes, fire officials said. Last year, those […]
Lime Turns E-Scooters into Micromobility Surveillance Platforms
By Joe Cadillic, founder of Politically Incorrect News on Substack Under the guise of public safety, Lime’s E-scooters could soon be recording everyone and everything they see. A recent article in TechCrunch revealed that Lime’s advanced rider assistance technology (ARAT) will be using a camera to detect when riders are on sidewalks. “At a Lime event in Paris, the […]
Little-Vehicle-Topia: Micromobility and the Rest of Us
From Shelia Dunn, NMA Communications Director Editor’s Note: This post first appeared on the Auto Tech Watch blog on February 10, 2019. All the articles linked have not been updated. I was exercise walking in my local park last fall and suddenly out of nowhere, a young woman on a scooter zipped past me and […]
Bicycle Idaho Stops are Not Safe for Any Road User
This post first appeared in September 2018 as NMA E-Newsletter #504. Since 1982, Idaho has been the only state that has allowed bicyclists to treat stop signs as yield signs and stoplights as stop signs. No other state passed a similar law until 2017. Delaware now has a similar law on its book and the Idaho […]
War on Cars at a Fever Pitch in NYC: NMA E-Newsletter #557
In our experience, we have never seen the likes of what is going on in New York City with the war on cars. Not only has the city become one giant speed trap with over 2000 “school zone” speed cameras, soon the city/state plans to implement congestion pricing below 60th street. The government expects motorists […]
Universal Road User Charges Really? Many Questions that need Answers by the Rest of Us
Editor’s Note: One of our Texas members wrote the following guest post as a response to this past week’s first part of the NMA three-part newsletter called: Are We Slinking Ever Closer to a Universal Road User Charge. Parts two and three will be on the website www.motorists.org on July 28 and August 4, respectively. […]
New Rules on Scooters in Atlanta
From Jeff Shiver, Atlanta car accident attorney of Shiver Hamilton. Scooters became popular in Atlanta in the spring of 2017, and everyone has an opinion on them. Some praise them for clearing up the clogged streets of the city, while others see them as nuisances that clutter sidewalks and crowd pedestrians. In an attempt to […]
Little-Vehicle-Topia: Micromobility and the Rest of Us
I was exercise walking in my local park last fall and suddenly out of nowhere, a young woman on a scooter zipped past me and we almost collided. She cut me off as she headed for the grass to take a short cut. Not only was this rude, but scary. As someone walking on a […]
Electric Scooters Descend on Austin, Texas
By John L. McCraw, III, a Bicycle Accident attorney with the McCraw Law Group. A large influx of two-wheel electric scooters into the Austin metropolitan area has created a wealth of novel questions, as well as making people aware of the inconsistency of bicycle and sidewalk laws in the city. With the influx unlikely to […]