Ride-sharing company Whoosh has announced new fines for e-scooter renters for unsafe driving. The existing ones will also be expanded. The Whoosh service operates in Samara, Nizhny Novgorod, Kazan, Ufa, Perm and other cities of Russia. Company representatives report that they have done a lot of work to improve knowledge of traffic rules among users. Therefore, they consider it logical to increase the size of fines for violators. “For trips of persons under 18 years of age, only the account was blocked. Now they will also be fined 10 thousand rubles. The amount of liability for joint driving has been increased from 800 to 5 thousand rubles,” representatives of the service. . also said Whoosh will now fine users for: • slowness at a pedestrian crossing – 1 thousand rubles • an incident caused by the user of the service that resulted in harm to the health or property of third parties – from 30 thousand to 100 thousand rubles; and account blocking; But the fine for violating parking rules remains the same – 500 rubles. Although it is the most common. “In the first four months of 2024, Whoosh users made 20.7 million trips and received about 6 thousand fines, half of them for careless parking. According to these data, more than 99% of trips are made without violations. Most users of the service understand the rules and ensure compliance with them.” A small part of violators in the company is associated with the effectiveness of educational projects within the service, the “maturity” of the audience and support for compliance with the rules through technology – automatic regulation of SIM speed in kicksharing, detection of shared rides, etc.” , noted representatives of the service. According to Kommersant, fines were increased and new and other kick companies were introduced: MTS Urent and Yandex Go. For handing over an electric scooter to a minor, crossing a pedestrian crossing without dismounting, or illegal parking, the fines are the same as for Whistling. For a joint trip, Yandex Go will fine you 3 thousand rubles. for each “passenger”, for drunk driving – 150 thousand rubles. MTS Urent’s liability for these violations is the same as Whoosh’s. Drunk driving alone also results in a lifetime account ban. A fine of 150 thousand rubles. also registered with Yandex Go for non-compliance with the rules for using a SIM card, which resulted in the death of another road user. At MTS Urent, for an accident due to the fault of an electric scooter user, as a result of whose actions a foreigner was injured, a fine of 100 thousand rubles will follow. and a lifetime ban from the application. But to apply sanctions, you will need supporting documents from the traffic police. Services track violators through their systems. Violators can also report them through chat and service support of the Association of Micromobility Operators. Kicksharing companies plan to use the funds collected from violators for infrastructure development and educational projects in the field of personal mobility.
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