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Re:SFMTA Offers Two Permits for One-Year Powered Scooter Pilot by eridius on Thursday August 30, 2018 @05:32PM (#17880974)
This is not true. AIUI the SFMTA told these companies that they were working on regulations governing these scooters and that they couldn't deploy them yet. Then one of the companies (I forget who) jumped the gun and deployed them anyway, so the others rushed out to deploy them too.

I don't know if this was strictly illegal, but it was certainly flaunting explicit instructions from the SFMTA.

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Re:SFMTA Offers Two Permits for One-Year Powered Scooter Pilot by rrix2 on Thursday August 30, 2018 @06:18PM (#17881298)
> I forget who

https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/28/san-francisco-will-regulat...

ISTR it was Lime, and this article from March seems to back that up. The other two launched shortly after because they were afraid to lose first-mover benefits. Woopsie.

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