San Jose State student Harmen Ghotra, 21, picks up a Lime-S electric scooter to get to campus faster to turn in a paper on Tuesday, April 3, 2018 in San Jose, Calif. (Laura A. Oda/Bay Area News Group/TNS)
SAN JOSE, California: When Harman Ghotra woke up late, dashed out the door and realised he had four minutes to get across campus to deliver a paper to his statistics professor, the calculations started spinning through his mind. Walk to class: Eight minutes. Run? Too much trouble.
Then there it was, parked at the intersection of 4th Street and San Fernando, an electric scooter, the latest craze in urban transportation that is suddenly multiplying around Bay Area downtowns.
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