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so in the past six or seven months we've seen more than a hundred cities in the US get these rentable ductless motorized scooters and we're seeing a lot of accidents rack up in emergency rooms over the past few weeks I've been talking to doctors in emergency rooms in several major cities and they say they're seeing the rate of these accidents happen anywhere from maybe ten a month to ten a day well I've heard all sorts of stories and a lot of people they just kind of lose control the scooter because they don't quite know what they're doing and other incidents I've heard is that people's brakes haven't worked I've also heard incidents where they push on the throttle and the scooter just keeps going a lot of doctors are saying most of the injuries they see coming in are people without helmets a lot of people renting the scooters are tourists they're not traveling with helmets or people just going about their day-to-day lives they're not carrying around a helmet and this is contributing to a lot of head injuries that's part of the problem with the scooters there's different laws in different states different cities so people don't really know what the rules are some states require helmets some don't in California it used to be the law that everyone had to wear a helmet but one of the scooter companies Birds back to bill to get that helmet requirement taken out and so starting January people won't have to wear helmets in California so scooter companies say safety is their top priority they have stickers on their scooters that say people should wear a helmet bird one of the scooter companies gives people free helmets they'll send them to them in the mail if they ask for them so when you signed up to rent one of these scooters you have to click through agreements in the app and basically those agreements are taking on full responsibility for what happens with that scooter so it absolves the student scooter companies of any responsibility or liability so if you get hurt it's your fault and not the company as these accidents rack up a lot of people are actually trying to sue the scooter companies because you know when your brakes go out down a hill there there has to be some responsibility taken so this is such a new technology none of these cases have been heard by a judge or been in any court yet so it's gonna be really interesting to see how it progresses and how the law is kind of shakeout and if those terms of agreement really can have affect every single doctor I've spoken to says you should definitely wear a helmet when riding when these scooters because it can save your life