Superpedestrian’s follow-up to the Copenhagen Wheel is a ride-sharing scooter

Superpedestrian, which you might remember from the Copenhagen Wheel, is getting into electric scooter ridesharing. But rather than try and compete with the juggernauts of Lime, Uber, or Lyft, the Cambridge-based company is instead turning its attention to making the scooter hardware that everyone else uses to build out their fleets.

The result is an electric scooter featuring a “Vehicle Intelligence” system, which monitors the scooter’s hardware and reports back to a cloud-based fleet monitoring system. Support tickets can be raised automatically when hardware fails, reducing the time it takes to get a scooter repaired, and the system is also capable of imposing parking or speed restrictions remotely, geofencing its restrictions to...

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