Au revoir’ rental e-scooters: Paris becomes 1st Europe city to implement ban

Parisians woke up on friday to a world without rented electric scooters, loathed as a pedestrian-bothering nuisance by some but mourned by others. Friday puts an end to five years of seeing users zip through crowds of pedestrians or park awkwardly on pavements and at intersections, as well as a string of accidents.