Safety Lab

We surveyed how people in Germany, Portugal, and Norway perceive shared scooter parking. Has it gotten better or worse over the past two years? Do misparked scooters remain an issue, […]

We’ve teamed up with the leading provider of acoustic technology on light signals in Germany, RTB, to integrate Bolt scooters into their LOC.id app. The Loc.ID app has been developed […]

Shared electric scooters are a new and rapidly growing form of urban transportation.  As they become more common, there’s increasing attention around the need to ensure rider and pedestrian safety […]

Today, we’re excited to announce the Bolt Scooter Safety Pledge. This blog post provides an overview of how we developed the pledge, with key input from a research report on […]

We developed the Reckless Rider Score feature to improve the safety of scooter riders and other road users. The score’s based on data picked up by scooter sensors and features […]

Bolt Patrol is a patrol team that plays a fundamental role in ensuring safe and correct e-bike and scooter parking. This team ensures our shared scooters and e-bikes are parked […]

A persistent challenge for cities with shared electric scooters and bikes is improper parking. The lack of common knowledge about micromobility parking rules and the shortage of dedicated parking spaces […]

Shared electric scooters can help to reduce dependence on private cars and make cities more liveable.  But for shared scooters to provide sustainable and equitable benefits to cities, they mustn’t […]

In the last Safety Lab article about scooter safety and road infrastructure, it was highlighted that safety statistics are still underdeveloped for scooters compared to other modes of transportation.  Although […]