Fast company: The growing e-scooter trend

What’s as convenient as a car, eco-friendly as a bicycle, and theft-proof as something you can fold up and take with you? It’s an e-scooter - and it’s about to take Ireland by storm. Hop on, says Sarah Taaffe-Maguire

The first scooter start-ups began in California
San Francisco, where pedestrians and e-scooters are locked in battle over footpath access Pic: Bloomberg

It’s Friday night on Dublin’s Camden Street. Taxis compete for limited kerb space; cyclists try not to get knocked down; pedestrians stagger across the road, halting traffic. An electric scooter, with its helmet-less passenger dressed entirely in black, whizzes through the frenzy. Heads turn in bewilderment. He’s clearly mad. He’s also breaking the law, and probably doesn’t even know it, ...