We recently discovered flaws in the security of shared electric scooter services that have worrying implications for the safety and privacy of their users. Not only is it possible to remotely ring the bells of scooters all over the world, but external parties are able to track the location and journeys of those scooters. In the video below, we show our researcher remotely ringing the bells and flashing the lights of scooters in public on February 5.

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A civil engineer looks at traffic data to improve road safety

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The car navigates complex driving situations.

A San Francisco e-scooter company is accused of making up its own fake permits to operate on city streets.

Elon Musk said that Las Vegas is "hopefully" getting a fully operational underground commercial tunnel in 2020.

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