Onemile launches e-scooter rental service which comes with seating pad
Chinese technology start-up Onemile has launched its electric scooter rental service which comes with a seating pad to help improve rider safety.
The company’s Halo City scooters are available in Hawaii, Paris, London and Berlin.
Onemile aims to offer its service at mid and long-term rental and says it will provide an integrated parking location and management system.
It is not the only company looking to find new ways to improve safety for riders. In the US, Bird rolled out an app feature which a
January 7, 2019
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Chinese technology start-up Onemile has launched its electric scooter rental service which comes with a seating pad to help improve rider safety.
The company’s Halo City scooters are available in Hawaii, Paris, London and Berlin.
Onemile aims to offer its service at mid and long-term rental and says it will provide an integrated parking location and management system.
It is not the only company looking to find new ways to improve safety for riders. In the US, Bird rolled out an %$Linker: 2External<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?><dictionary />000link-external app featurefalsehttp://www.itsinternational.com/sections/transmart/news/bird-enables-reports-of-poorly-parked-and-damaged-e-scooters/falsefalse%> which allows users to report poorly parked or damaged electric scooters.
Swedish company Voi has launched its electric scooters in Lisbon as part of a wider ambition to expand in Europe.
In addition to Portugal, the company says it plans to bring its e-scooters to Italy and France over the coming months.
Frederico Venâncio, general manager of Voi Portugal, says Voi riders in Sweden have travelled more than 450,000km in Stockholm, and the company expects to see similar growth in Portugal.
“Although we want to expand rapidly, we want to do it in a sustainable way and in line
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The Government of Japan is to install 5G wireless communications base stations on traffic signals nationwide by 2025.
A report by The Japan News says the project is expected to reduce costs for telecommunications service providers.
As part of the project, traffic signals will be equipped with devices to measure the amount of traffic. The information sent from the stations to the vehicles is expected to support autonomous driving.
Japan is not the only company looking to harness the potential of 5G. In F