{"id":1037,"date":"2018-05-31T22:42:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-31T22:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2018\/05\/31\/7-points-from-the-right-on-regulating-electric-scooters\/"},"modified":"2018-05-31T22:42:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-31T22:42:00","slug":"7-points-from-the-right-on-regulating-electric-scooters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/7-points-from-the-right-on-regulating-electric-scooters\/","title":{"rendered":"7 Points from the Right on Regulating Electric Scooters."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Empower Texas sets up itscall for state action on the economic innovation of electric scooters by\u00a0\u00a0highlighting 7\u00a0problems with Austin&#8217;s electric scooter proposal:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Requiring <strong>expensive locking mechanism<\/strong> on each scooter<\/li>\n<li><strong>Engine power caps<\/strong> that limit scooter use on hills<\/li>\n<li><strong>Data Sharing Requirements. <\/strong>Full\u00a0access of scooter and customer data afforded to the city.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Large fees<\/strong> for additional scooters over the first 500<\/li>\n<li><strong>Low Incoe distribution requirements. &#8220;<\/strong>A plan to the city for rollout of the vehicles into low-income communities that would be unlikely to make use of the vehicles. (However, there are also stiff fees for vehicles that do not get a minimum level of use.)&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Limit location data collection<\/strong> by the company\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>A 24\/7 customer service line<\/strong>, including during times the fleet is not in operation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/empowertexans.com\/central-texas\/electric-scooters-return-to-austin-with-big-government-regulations\/\">Empower Texas |\u00a0ELECTRIC SCOOTERS RETURN TO AUSTIN WITH BIG GOVERNMENT REGULATIONS<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Empower Texas sets up itscall for state action on the economic innovation of electric scooters by\u00a0\u00a0highlighting 7\u00a0problems with Austin&#8217;s electric scooter proposal:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Requiring <strong>expensive locking mechanism<\/strong> on each scooter<\/li>\n<li><strong>Engine power caps<\/strong> that limit scooter use on hills<\/li>\n<li><strong>Data Sharing Requirements. <\/strong>Full\u00a0access of scooter and customer data afforded to the city.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Large fees<\/strong> for additional scooters over the first 500<\/li>\n<li><strong>Low Incoe distribution requirements. &#8220;<\/strong>A plan to the city for rollout of the\u2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,29,48,30,5,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2019-issue","category-bicycle","category-ev-electric-vehicles","category-local-government","category-roads","category-sharing-economy","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}