Name: Why the rise of the electric scooter has been a bumpy ride
Uploaded: 2018-11-23T15:09:10.000Z
Duration: 9 min 29 s

JUDY WOODRUFF: In dozens of cities, the electric scooter has taken off as a popular novelty,

JUDY WOODRUFF：在幾十個城市，電動滑板車已經成為一種流行的新奇事物。

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for sure, and, for many, an environmentally friendly and economical alternative to driving.

對許多人來說，這是一種環保和經濟的替代駕駛方式。

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Last week, Ford Motor Company got into the act, buying its own scooter start-up.

上週，福特汽車公司開始行動，收購了自己的滑板車初創公司。

But there's a big backlash building as well over this new fad.

但在這種新的時尚上，也有很大的反響。

Special correspondent and Washington Post columnist Catherine Rampell has our story

特派記者、《華盛頓郵報》專欄作家凱瑟琳-蘭佩爾為我們帶來了報道。

CATHERINE RAMPELL: Sunny Santa Monica, California, home to the fitness enthusiasts of Muscle

CATHERINE RAMPELL：加州陽光燦爛的聖莫尼卡，是肌肉的健身愛好者的家園。

Beach, the high-tech start-ups of Silicon Beach, and, for the past year, righteous fury

灘，硅灘的高科技創業公司，以及，在過去的一年裡，義憤填膺。

When Domino's has their pizza bot, robot, tooling down the sidewalks?

當多米諾讓他們的披薩機器人，機器人，在人行道上工具？

When the mythical Amazon drones want to park someplace?

當神話中的亞馬遜無人機想要停在某個地方時？

Are all these things going to reside on our public right of way?

難道這些東西都要駐紮在我們的公共道路上嗎？

CATHERINE RAMPELL: Martin Resnick (ph) is mad about dockless electric scooters.

CATHERINE RAMPELL：Martin Resnick(音譯)對無停靠的電動滑板車感到瘋狂。

They're essentially skateboards with handles that can be picked up and dropped off anywhere

它們基本上是帶手柄的滑板，可以在任何地方取放。

They have been rolled out in scores of cities around the country, where local officials

它們已經在全國幾十個城市推廣，當地官員在這些城市的

JUAN MATUTE, Transportation Expert: There's been cities that have just said anything goes.

交通專家JUAN MATUTE：有的城市就說什麼都可以。

CATHERINE RAMPELL: Transportation expert Juan Matute.

CATHERINE RAMPELL：交通專家Juan Matute。

JUAN MATUTE: Then there are cities who have said nothing goes, Milwaukee.

朱安-馬圖特：然後有的城市說什麼也不去，密爾沃基。

And then there are cities like Santa Monica.

CATHERINE RAMPELL: Where the whole craze began.

It started last fall with just 10 scooters from one company, but soon sidewalks and streets

去年秋天開始，只有一家公司的10輛滑板車，但很快人行道和街

We visited to see, a year later, how the ride has been.

我們走訪了一下，看看一年後，騎行的情況如何。

Assistant City Manager Anuj Gupta admits that at times it's been bumpy.

市政經理助理Anuj Gupta承認，有時它是坎坷的。

ANUJ GUPTA, Assistant City Manager, Santa Monica: It suddenly became an unexpectedly

聖莫尼卡市助理市政經理ANUJ GUPTA：突然間變成了一個意想不到的。

CATHERINE RAMPELL: Now, many of the emotions are positive.

What made you decide to try the scooters?

WOMAN: It just looked so, I don't know, easy and reliable and fun.

它只是看起來如此，我不知道，簡單，可靠和有趣。

WOMAN: Yes, absolutely, a great way to see the sights.

女：是的，絕對的，是看風景的好方法。

CATHERINE RAMPELL: Some locals are also enamored.

CATHERINE RAMPELL：一些當地人也很著迷。

MAN: I get a little rush out of it, like, adrenaline.

我得到了一個小的衝動，就像，腎上腺素。

It makes me feel good that I accomplished something that's almost impossible.

我完成了一件幾乎不可能完成的事情，這讓我感覺很好。

CATHERINE RAMPELL: Plus, they're a green alternative to cars, at least for short distances.

另外，它們是汽車的綠色替代品，至少在短途上是如此。

WOMAN: It's a great idea to be able to get to and from work when you need to or just

女：這是一個很好的主意，可以在你需要的時候上下班，或者只是。

to go, like I am right now, to the Third Street Promenade, going to go hit a VIP event.

去，就像我現在，去第三街長廊，去打一個VIP活動。

CATHERINE RAMPELL: And they have created a network of gig economy jobs.

CATHERINE RAMPELL：而且他們創造了一個gig經濟的工作網絡。

Sean Besser works for one of the companies, Lime, as a so-called juicer scooping up dead

Sean Besser為其中一家公司Lime工作，作為一個所謂的榨汁機，挖出死人。

He puts in less than an hour a day four or five days a week, and says he earns about

他每週有四五天每天工作不到一個小時，他說他的收入大約是。

I feel like I'm doing a scavenger hunt where I'm actually getting paid as part of the scavenger

我覺得我在做一個尋寶遊戲，我實際上得到報酬作為尋寶遊戲的一部分。

CATHERINE RAMPELL: But as the initial novelty faded, problems have emerged, as the Santa

但隨著最初的新奇感逐漸消失，問題也出現了，因為聖塔。

Monica City Council heard at a seven-hour meeting in June.

莫妮卡市議會在6月舉行的7個小時的會議上聽。

WOMAN: On February 15, 2018, I was struck by a Bird scooter rider who ran into me from

女：2018年2月15日，我被一個騎著小鳥摩托車的人撞倒，他從。

I contacted Bird three times asking for help in tracking the suspect.

我三次聯繫 "鳥"，請求幫助追蹤嫌疑人。

They have been unresponsive and unhelpful.

他們一直沒有反應，也沒有幫助。

I have got two herniated discs in my neck.

我的脖子上有兩個椎間盤突出。

WOMAN: I stepped out, and one slammed right into me.

我走出來，有一個人直接撞到了我。

MAN: Basically, pedestrians have become the bowling pins of Santa Monica.

基本上，行人已經成為聖莫尼卡的保齡球。

CATHERINE RAMPELL: Pedestrians aren't the only ones getting injured.

WILLIAM KAIRALA, Injured: I wasn't even going fast.

受傷的威廉-凱拉拉 WILLIAM KAIRALA, Injured:I wasn't even going fast.

CATHERINE RAMPELL: William Kairala says he'd dropped his bicycle off for repair and decided

CATHERINE RAMPELL：威廉-凱拉拉說，他把自行車送去修理，並決定。

WILLIAM KAIRALA: This is one of the C.T. scans.

CATHERINE RAMPELL: He woke up hours later in an emergency room.

WILLIAM KAIRALA: I hit the pavement with my head.

And I had a crack behind the ear, and it went all the way up to here.

而我的耳朵後面有一條裂縫，一直延伸到這裡。

In the forehead is like a throbbing pain.

CATHERINE RAMPELL: Kairala is thinking about joining a class-action suit filed recently

CATHERINE RAMPELL：凱拉拉正在考慮加入最近提起的集體訴訟。

Others have sought vigilante justice, documented on an Instagram account called Bird Graveyard.

其他人則尋求義警正義，記錄在一個名為 "鳥墳場 "的Instagram賬戶上。

It shows angry people giving new meaning to the term Bird droppings.

它顯示了憤怒的人們給鳥糞這個詞賦予了新的含義。

They're running them over with cars, setting them on fire, and siccing dogs on them, in

他們用汽車碾壓他們，放火燒他們，用狗咬他們，在

Aaron Rovala runs his own scooter rental company, the sit-down kind.

亞倫-羅瓦拉經營著自己的滑板車租賃公司，坐著的那種。

AARON ROVALA, DtD Rental" It just blows my mind how like all these young people are just

AARON ROVALA，DtD租賃 "它只是吹我的頭腦如何像所有這些年輕人只是。

CATHERINE RAMPELL: You seem too young to be making this complaint.

你看起來太年輕了，不適合做這個投訴。

No, no, I'm not necessarily making complaint.

I'm just saying approach it in a different way.

我只是說用不同的方式來處理。

CATHERINE RAMPELL: Some people love them, some people hate them.

有些人喜歡它們，有些人討厭它們。

In fact, they're spreading to cities all over the country.

事實上，他們正在向全國各地的城市蔓延。

Santa Monica had to figure out how to fit this new technology into its city without

聖塔莫尼卡必須想辦法將這種新技術融入到城市中去，而又不至於影響到城市的發展。

either squelching a brand-new industry or letting it scoot roughshod over the town.

要麼壓制一個全新的產業，要麼讓它在小鎮上橫衝直撞。

Not so long ago, Uber and Lyft fought similar battles with local officials.

不久前，Uber和Lyft與當地官員進行了類似的戰鬥。

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