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Inside Europe: Paris puts the brakes on e-scooters

Jake Cigainero
August 9, 2019

Electric scooters have become a scourge in Paris. Start-ups have flooded the city, leading to accidents, injuries and anger. Broken scooters litter pavements or get tossed into the river Seine. When they arrived on the streets of Paris, there were no rules or regulations for the rental companies. Jake Cigainero reports on how the city is now cracking down on those rentals.

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