Unbeknownst to me, most of the college communities in cities are now offering electric scooters that you can rent through your phone. Each has a gps link and the municipalities gather them up in the middle of the night to put them back on charge. They unbelievably rent these without helmets and they are death traps. My daughter who is attending college in Detroit rented one and got thrown from it when the front wheel got into the trolley rail. She woke up on the pavement and had broken two bones in one ankle that required surgery. In my opinion she was very lucky as it could have been much worse. Since then she has found out that these incidences are quite common and usually result in a traumatic head injury. I find it very hard to believe in our “super safety conscious and litigious” society that this is going on.
