Lime scooters are trying to increase safety

On sidewalk - not good.

Now that parking is almost impossible to get in the Center Grove, unless you are willing to drive around the block a half our or so, searching. You might want to start scooting around.

One of the issues with the scooters have been people riding them on sidewalks, rather than in the street, where they belong.

Lime, one of the many scooter companies has come up with a solution, possibly.

This week Lime launched a pilot program in San Jose, California where there are on-board sensors which detect through the terrain whether a rider is on the sidewalk or not. If they are - a notification will pop up on their phone asking them to stop.

Not sure how that will work, as I don't think looking at your phone while scooting around town is a good idea. It's akin to texting and driving, only worse. But hopefully riders will look at the report sent to them after they are done riding. You can see by the images above how it will look. There will be a map showing in red, where the person was on the sidewalk during their ride and then a warning message is also sent, as you can see on the image to the right.