39: Scoot Over?
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🗓️ 13 November 2019
⏱️ 36 minutes
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About two years ago, companies like Bird and Lime deposited thousands of dockless electric scooters in San Diego. Some people loved them… and some people hated them. While city officials considered what to do, two guys decided they’d had enough and took matters into their own hands. What followed were lawsuits, a physical alteration, and a growing new business. Plus, in a new segment, we learn what a beloved brand of chocolate has to do with inflation in the U.K.
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| 0:00.0 | There's this oddly popular Instagram account called Bird Graveyard. |
| 0:05.8 | It has nothing to do with actual birds, but rather electric scooters. |
| 0:09.4 | And Bird, well if you don't know already, it's one of the biggest eScooter companies |
| 0:12.9 | out there. |
| 0:16.1 | On this account, people upload images and videos of electric scooters being smashed. |
| 0:21.2 | Poster and buildings set on fire or knocked over like dominoes. |
| 0:24.5 | Get a girl! |
| 0:26.8 | I've probably spent way too much time on this site. |
| 0:31.0 | It's kind of hard to take your eyes off of it. |
| 0:33.2 | One thing I did notice, there is this strange obsession with throwing electric scooters into |
| 0:37.7 | bodies of water. |
| 0:39.2 | The Pacific Ocean, the Willamette River in Portland, the Sinon Paris, the reflecting pool in front |
| 0:44.1 | of the Lincoln Memorial, really? |
| 0:46.3 | What is going on here? |
| 0:47.3 | Where did this all begin? |
| 0:48.8 | Those electric scooters from companies like Lyme and Bird. |
| 0:51.9 | Electric scooters are taking over cities. |
| 0:53.9 | It's an eScooter invasion. |
| 0:55.8 | Electric scooters like this one have flooded the streets of Santa Monica in recent months. |
| 1:00.2 | Here's where it started. |
| 1:01.3 | Two years ago in Santa Monica, California, that's when Bird, without much fuss or warning, |
| 1:06.1 | put 10 dockless electric scooters on the streets and then made them available for anyone to |
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