xeneks

Imo best way is to treat the scooters like cars. Dangerous and expensive. Handle the risk and cost by treating the kids like adults. Test and qualify them for a scooters drivers license. Require them to participate in a driving test. Explain that their vehicle needs care as it’s costly. Get them to complete an exam that asks questions like: what do you do if someone takes the scooter off you and mistreats it? What if someone hits you and takes the scooter? What do you do if you can’t store the scooter securely outside a place you have visited? What do you do if the scooter goes flat or breaks? Based on correct answers, and a license without breaches, give them access to a scooter on a provisional basis.

Hehe, it doesn’t need to be a formal government issued license, think more so a way to grab the id of each user in case something goes wrong, and give them something physical that connects to the usage rundown and safety training shared.

By giving a license you are saying ‘try to be responsible’ and this reduces risk for all.

The paper test can be a fun one, heck, it would need to be so.

Any driving test would just confirm the person has reflexes that work.

Not like govt. stuff! Buzz comes with confidence and that comes with plans that demonstrate best effort. Govt rules and regs is far more that best effort!

2g, 3g or 4g - and was the cancer potentially related to emi?

Ahh true, just I have two children and they get scraped up pretty bad on the scooter even without a motor ;-)

It takes a person with a will of steel to deliver, whether a business or charity all it takes is a reasonable knowledge of risks and then simple procedures can be implemented to reduce it.

It’s in the construction of those simple procedures that the business finds its secret sauce.

Just as I show one extreme (licences, training, tests) there is another (give them a scooter and a smile!) - the best path for all that enables it to be a successful long term venture that brings benefits probably lies in between somewhere.