In Los Angeles, Motorized vehicles are not permitted on sidewalks and paths. As a rider, you are liable for all personal injuries that result from your riding. Without insurance, you are putting your financial life in jeopardy. Think about it!
In addition to riders, if the scooter is a rental, I think there is a pretty solid claim to be made against the tech companies who scatter these scooters throughout cities (often times illegally) and allow them to be rented by anyone (with no training, no education of rules of the road, no offering of helmets, I’m not sure these thing come equipped with safety lights of any kind, etc...).
I don't know about that, the device itself is not illegal, only its use on public way. And technically ignorance of the law is not a valid excuse.
It’s not about ignorance of the law, if I get hurt by one I can sue both the rider and the scooter company.
That very much makes the company involved with what happens when people do just that.
Same way they would if they were injured by a car, or by someone punching them in the face.
oh. interesting. do these scooters have something like a license plate that one could use to trace back to the rider? do scooter companies service requests from random injured pedestrians for info about the rider of a particular scooter? does the DMV have a database of these vehicles? will the police help a pedestrian who tells them she was hit by a scooter and the rider just took off? if so, how do they find the rider? I mean, how does all that work?
As a walker, you're liable for all personal injuries that result from your walking
As a dog owner, you're liable for all personal injuries that result from your dog.
> Without insurance, you are putting your financial life in jeopardy.
Most drivers are underinsured if they send a few people to the hospital. On a scooter though, covering the average cost of a scrape or the beyond costs of a broken bone isn't nearly as peril.
Very few people have bicycle liability insurance, yet scooter liability insurance is a concern?