Spin promises fix for AI glitch that makes scooters sound loud alarm on popular Seattle trail
July 28, 2021 at 2:18 pm
A Spin scooter on Seattle’s Burke-Gilman Trail, which the company’s technology mistakes for a sidewalk. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop)
One of the most interesting features of the shared Spin scooters that rolled out this month in Seattle is technology that detects when someone is riding a scooter on a sidewalk in violation of local ordinances, repeatedly emitting a loud jingle to alert the rider and anyone else within earshot to the problem.
At least initially, it’s also one of the scooter’s most obnoxious features.
New 5 brewery collaboration released for Seattle Beer Week 2021
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Warmer, sunnier days are ahead, and Seattle s beer lovers just got a new five brewery IPA collaboration to cool down with.
The new IPA, Light at the End, is in celebration of this year s Seattle Beer Week, which won t be holding any in-person events amid the fourth surge of the pandemic as virus variants continue to spread in Washington. Instead, the organizers decided to have breweries make a beer people could drink on their own and remind us that we will get through this together.
A lot of people.
Some folks are clearly afraid and fearful of COVID exposure outdoors. For example, I often see individuals making a point to avoid unmasked bikers or joggers on the Burke-Gilman trail.moving 5-10 feet off the trail and sometimes turning away. Occasionally it gets tense, as when one local scientist (not me) was angrily called a Republican when he was walking in a park without a mask.
The fear of outdoor spread even hit the management of Seattle Parks last year, when several parks and their parking lots were closed because of COVID fears.
Photo by Nate Loper Through a Creative Commons License
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