Die-hard motorcyclists will say what they will about scooters, but a growing group of small companies are enabling the diminutive two-wheelers to help make roads a safer place.
The idea is simple: drivers who are too drunk to drive home call up a service, which dispatches an employee on a small, foldable scooter. Using the drunkard's cage... er, car to house the scooter, the customer is safely ferried back home, and the employee then unfolds the scooter and heads off into the night.
Lilybug, a Hamptons-based scooter dropoff service, was founded by William Heath after a friend was killed by a hit-and-run drunk driver. Heath says in a New York Times piece that "Anything that will take a drunk driver off the road is great all around for the community."
The article suggests that though most of these companies are for-profit, they're part of a growing trend of entrepreneurial ventures that happen to also do good; not a bad use for lil' scoots, yeah?
Sources: Vanity Fair, New York Times
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