Posted on 09/26/2020 3:23:02 PM PDT by simpson96
A woman who says she dislocated her hip and broke multiple bones when she crashed an Uber rental scooter is suing the company for failing to equip vehicles with turn signals.
Erin Norman, who crashed on the streets of San Francisco in 2019, filed a lawsuit against Uber Technologies Inc. on Thursday. She crashed when she lifted her hand to indicate a turn on a Jump scooter, she said. Uber owned Jump until May 2020, when it sold it to Neutron Holdings, which operates as Lime.
Norman needed emergency surgery and medical care for nine months afterwards, according to the suit. Since the accident, Norman's quality of life has been "unquestionably diminished."
Norman accused Uber of failing to provide "any device or mechanism to safely signal a turn" despite designing the vehicles for use on city streets, where signalling is required.
The filing said that the "technology exists to add turn signals to the scooters," adding that "if these defendants cared about the safety of their riders, they would add turn signals to every scooter in their fleet."
Uber didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
Get real .... undoubtedly probably has problems walking into things while on her phone. My guess was that the idiot was texting while scooting.
Undoubtedly a lawyer saw this as an opportunity to make some big bucks. She might get 50%. I’m blaming the lawyer field until/if shown otherwise.
I cannot believe people are allowed ride these things on the sidewalk.
Kids on bikes on the sidewalk are already a lethal threat.
Any device that goes faster than a jogger should be permitted only on a roadway.
Oh, riding in the street is dangerous?
Too freaking bad.
Corporations and these device users are just trying to shift their own personal risk onto completely innocent and law abiding pedestrians.
She drove it and knew it didn’t have turn signals. Sorry she accepted the liability for being stupid. Does she know there are no break lights on these either
A powered scooter that can go at least 17 mph, faster on the down hills, is a suicide machine waiting to happen.
Might as well put working turn signals on a BMW.
And if ya get hit in the face by an angry mob of hornets which fly down your shirt, into the sleeves...Sue them for failing to provide a proper windscreen or protective wind shield, like seen on cop bikes.
Is that a meth lab to the left? This is San Fransicko right?
Just think, California could demand all bicycle riders must wear reflective safety vest with little LED turn flashers built into each shoulder.
Did someone force her at gunpoint to rent and ride the scooter? If the risks are so obvious and serious, she should have kept on walking. Or hailed a cab.
There are many at FR who enjoy bloviating about things they know nothing about. The unsafe nature of these scooters has been known for years, but the companies are both supported by lefty municipal governments and obstructionist about facts.
If some of the comments here have any merit whatsoever, then the foundation of product liability is undermined across the board.
That means when an autonomous semi truck hauling 80,000 pounds kills you & your family, it’s your own damned fault for not getting out of the way.
“...even though 70 percent claimed to have received training on scooter use, 60 percent said they had received that training via a scooter company’s phone app. For an idea of how adequate this “training” seemingly is, a third of the study’s injured respondents sustained those injuries on their first ever scooter ride.”
https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a27372767/electric-scooters-mobility-safety/
The injuries continue.
Those supporting these ridiculous devices have obviously not traveled the same roads you all complain about while riding in your encapsulated road vehicle with pneumatic tires 1000% larger than a scooter...
...and ignore the fact that they proliferate almost exclusively in lefty/liberal cities.
Like my wife is wont to say, “I know how she votes”...
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