Following reports of problematic braking that in some cases resulted in rider injury, Lyft is pulling its recently acquired network of e-bikes from service in three major cities. Those include Citi Bike in New York, GoBike in San Francisco, and Capital Bikeshare in Washington.
The supposedly innovative, affordable Sondors e-bike slayed its crowdfunding goal earlier this month, raising over $US5 million to become the second-most successful Indiegogo campaign of all time. Now its creator is being sued for fraud by the company that ran his crowdfunding gambit.
It’s been a crazy week here at Giz. We met amazing Australian engineers and personally test drove some crazy gear: folding boats, water jetpacks, motorised surfboards and electric dirt bikes. But what do we try next? As you’ll see in this video, we have some ideas…