The liberal dream to replace cars-----A Lime scooter rider died this morning in Washington, D.C., marking the second fatality this month | TechCrunch

A Lime scooter rider died this morning in Washington, D.C., marking the second fatality this month | TechCrunch
"Lime, the 18-month-old, San Francisco-based company whose bright green bicycles and scooters now dot cities throughout the U.S., launched a pilot program in Tacoma, Washington, today, but that tiny victory might have felt short-lived. 
The reason: on the opposite side of the country, a Lime  rider was killed today by an SUV while tooling around Washington D.C.’s DuPont neighborhood. 
...On the one hand, the developments, while unfortunate, can hardly come as a surprise to anyone given how vulnerable riders or e-scooters are. 
...At the same time, city after city has deemed their use on sidewalks illegal out of fear that fast-moving riders will collide with and injure pedestrians. 
That leaves riders sharing city streets with the same types of giant, exhaust-spewing machines that they hope to increasingly displace. 
In fact, sales of traditional SUVs has continued to surge..."
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