3 Things — Superpedestrian is not the largest or the most recognizable micromobility company in the world. In fact, we’ve only been operating e-scooter fleets for about two years. …

What a safe micromobility battery has in common with a safe street — By Paul Steely White London, San Francisco, New York City, Bremen and Auckland have all had highly publicized brushes with e-bike and/or e-scooter battery fires of late. While there is no evidence that battery fires occur any more frequently than old-fashioned internal combustion engine fires, all it takes is one…

Takeaways from the research we’re reading at Superpedestrian “Zero is the only acceptable number of deaths on our highways, roads, and streets.” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg released a nationwide plan to reduce and eventually eliminate traffic deaths. The goal is to reverse the alarming increase of U.S. …

Game time for sidewalk tech as Chicago puts Pedestrian Defense to the urban canyon test The City of Chicago’s 2021 pilot scooter program evaluation included a startling failure: …scooter vendors committed to bringing sidewalk riding detection technology to demonstrate in the city. However, no vendors ultimately deployed this technology. Now…

Our largest-ever funding round will help Superpedestrian introduce our revolutionary Pedestrian Defense system this year to cities across North America and Europe. By: Ross Ringham Read more: Boston Globe, TechCrunch, The Telegraph, Silicon Republic, Webrazzi More than a decade ago, Assaf Biderman had a vision — to create the world’s…

When you visualize someone riding a shared e-scooter, is that person a 65-year-old grandmother? Teri Michaud might just change your perception of who micromobility is for in this guest post by Superpedestrian’s Shawna Kitzman. Talking Scooters Over Coffee I arrived at my parent’s house on a bright December morning. They…

What’s Holding It Back? (Hint: It’s not City Administrators) By Paul Steely White I love the micromobility sector. It’s full of bright, idealistic people excited to usher in a post-car world. At the same time, I see many scooter executives making the same wrong turns that car companies made, like…

“What links us?” — our short film featuring LINK e-scooters — is not a typical micromobility commercial. Then again, Superpedestrian isn’t a typical micromobility company. Oli Brotherhood had an unconventional entry to film-making: Minecraft tutorials. Minecraft, launched in 2011, is a “sandbox” game, meaning players build their own virtual worlds…

This letter was published in our 2020–21 annual report, “Built Better, For Cities.” Download the report at our website, superpedestrian.com. I remember the first time my wife and I rode one of Superpedestrian’s prototype scooters in 2018, for a short ride around the MIT campus. …