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Re:I rode all the e-scooters, and most of them are awful exc... by masklinn on Tuesday June 11, 2019 @12:29PM (#20156935)
> how would any pedestrian who is injured by a scooter rider in LA actually hold the scooter driver financially responsible? What is the mechanism?

Same way they would if they were injured by a car, or by someone punching them in the face.

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Re:I rode all the e-scooters, and most of them are awful exc... by HillaryBriss on Tuesday June 11, 2019 @10:14PM (#20161178)
> Same way they would if they were injured by a car

oh. interesting. do these scooters have something like a license plate that one could use to trace back to the rider? do scooter companies service requests from random injured pedestrians for info about the rider of a particular scooter? does the DMV have a database of these vehicles? will the police help a pedestrian who tells them she was hit by a scooter and the rider just took off? if so, how do they find the rider? I mean, how does all that work?

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