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Real-time, in-trip geolocation data isn’t good for traffic/bike lane planning, a draft of the suit says. What it’s good for is surveillance. Continue reading Uber to file federal suit against Los Angeles over users’ real-time location data
The anonymized real-time location data the city’s after can easily be associated with riders, thereby jeopardizing their privacy, Uber says. Continue reading Uber sues LA in bid to protect scooter riders’ geolocation data
Uber, which is pushing back against the requests for real-time location data of its JUMP scooters, was granted a provisional, month-long permit, while other companies received a full-year license. Continue reading Scooter Companies Split on Giving Real-Time Location Data to Los Angeles
You can add another bullet point to the long list of things that drive people nuts about the electric scooter craze in America: the scooters can be hacked. A researcher with San Francisco-based Zimperium discovered a way to manipulate Xiaomi M365 scooter through a Bluetooth connection. Users can access their scooter via an app that connects to the scooter, as long as users authenticate with a password. However Zimperium researcher Rani Idan determined the password fails to completely protect users. “During our research, we determined the password is not being used properly as part of the authentication process with the scooter and that all commands can be executed without the password,” Idan wrote in a blog post Tuesday. “The password is only validated on the application side, but the scooter itself doesn’t keep track of the authentication state.” From there, Idan wrote an app for his mobile device that allowed him to […]
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Electric scooters are fun, but nobody knows what to do with them yet. Continue reading Scooters Reveal Urban America’s Transportation Crisis
The City of San Francisco just gave scooter companies Bird, Spin, and Lime an ultimatum: Get off the street and apply for a permit, or else. Continue reading Scooter Companies Have Two Weeks to Get Off the Streets of San Francisco
Profit-motivated mobility startups can’t be trusted to regulate themselves. Continue reading How Cities Are Trying to Rein In the Scooter and Bike Share Craze
After years of being a testbed for startups, San Francisco is fighting back by literally smearing shit on scooters. Continue reading San Francisco Is Fighting the Scooter Trend With Poop and Vandalism
San Fransisco is awash in electric scooters. Three companies — Lime, Bird, and Spin — have been dumping ‘smart’ electric scooters on the sidewalks of San Fransisco over the last few weeks. The business plan for all these companies is to allow anyone to ride them via an app. $1 unlocks the scooter, and rides are fifteen cents a minute. No one, it appears, is looking at the upside of abandoned, dead electric scooters: they’re a remarkable source of lithium batteries and brushless motors. Hello, my name is Mr. Cyberpunk. My friends and I drive around the city collecting abandoned …read more
The MiniPro is emblematic of a new, safer breed of hoverboard—one that won’t explode in a ball of fire while you ride it. The post A Weird New Segway Is Finally Making Hoverboards Legit appeared first on WIRED. Continue reading A Weird New Segway Is Finally Making Hoverboards Legit