Miss, have your Day Nurse Google the term Assumed Risk. So sorry!
This better not get to the bicycle manufactures.
If on that thing, and get stopped in the street by BLM...
Well, I’m going to sue the firm for failing to fit an engine to it, without which i was not able to floor it and drive away.
Give them instructions and how to use hand signals.
It wouldn’t have mattered. She’s too dumb to use something as complicated as a turn signal anyway.
It is dangerous to even drive in SF in a car. It is crazy dangerous to drive a scooter in traffic on hills in SF. Sorry sweetie, you have to be responsible for your own actions and inabilities maneuver in SF traffic on those steep hills. Was it raining? Foggy? Was there slippery poop in the roadway? Sorry, no sale!!!
How old is this woman??? Does she have a brain. Oh, sorry we are talking about SF after all.
.......I don’t know about California and I’m not a lawyer but I know just enough to know that in Texas there is a little basic legal principle called “causation”. Most likely California has the same law as Texas and if so she will have to prove a hard and real link between no turn signal and her accident or her lawsuit will not likely survive a summary judgment hearing.
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
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?
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.
Like my wife is wont to say, “I know how she votes”...