Scooter impact.
Apart from the new mobility solution that scooters offer, they bring on a range of benefits. Bird has fixed its current scooter with GPS and a charging system. The scooters being GPS enabled a feature that makes them easily accessible via a phone app that can be accessed within any location. Once a user orders for a ride via the app, the payment procedure is after a trip, and every additional minute is charged. Think of how convenient the new technology in the scooters is an added advantage for the delivery guys or the last mile distributors. The GPS in the scooter can help in accessing delivery location quickly, especially on last-mile ones, while at the same time, the user can charge their phones as it is fixed with a charging system. Scooter is promoting an active outdoor activity where one can easily exercise while riding, which is healthy. While at the same time generating income.
Scooters are getting popular over time, with most large cities adopting it as a means of transportation, which is easily accessible, convenient and uses electricity, which is eco-friendly. The lingering question is, are scooters eco-friendly? By using electricity, it is presumably eco- friendly compared to automobiles that use gasoline and other fossil fuels, which are more pollutants. The argument has different perspectives; Bird argues that every mile that a scooter travels mitigate up to 350 grams of carbon. Imagine if a single scooter can cover at least 10 miles a day that translates to 3500grams of carbon mitigation. But to experts, their argument is different; most pollution happens in the manufacturing phase and the afterlife phase. And the afterlife stage here considers the disposal mechanism of the scooters once their lifespan is over. The production phase causes most pollution as the manufacturing company’s use of energy from fossil fuels to facilitate production. So as much as the end product mitigates carbon emission, the production part of it does the inverse.