After a successful experiment in Roubaix, TIER Mobility’s shared electric scooter and bicycle service has received approval from the metropolitan council to expand across the European Metropolis of Lille (MEL). To date, around fifteen municipalities have decided to set up this service in their territory. In Martine Aubry’s stronghold, where the disastrous episode of Gobee bike scolded elected officials, the city nevertheless agreed to see TIER’s bikes arrive, but not its scooters. So, to finally convince the most cautious, the company has released “two new security measures”.
Already, the speed of electric vehicles was limited to just above walking speed in pedestrian and high-density areas. The system is such that parking your self-service bike or scooter outside the designated areas financially penalizes the user. From now on, TIER also wants to prevent “bad behavior” as much as possible or, if this is not possible, to make it easier to find offenders.
License plates and ID scanning
To do this, the mobility company will equip its entire fleet of electric scooters with license plates, or rather identification plates, hung visibly at the rear of the vehicle. Each device will thus be equipped with a unique number which should make it possible to trace it back to the user if the person who is the victim of an offense, or the police officer who notices one, can note the number, relatively small.
The second measure aims to prevent minors from using the service. When opening the application, a pop-up will ask the user to scan their identity document and the rental will be blocked if the algorithm detects that the user is under 18 years old. According to the operator, these two measures have been successfully tested in Lyon.