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Electric scooters on collision course with pedestrians and lawmakers

  • Written by Jim Sallis, Professorial Fellow, Mary MacKillop Institute for Health Research, Australian Catholic University; Emeritus Professor, Department of Family Medicine and Public Health, University of California San Diego
A man in downtown Atlanta with an electric scooter on June 26, 2018. Brinley Hineman/ AP Photo

Electric scooters are appearing in many major cities across the country, bringing fun to riders, profits to scooter makers – and lots of potential risks to walkers and riders.

San Diego, where I live, is at the forefront of the proliferation of...

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