Lime e-scooters are everywhere, even Google Maps
Lime made it to Australia last month and Mexico City the month before. On Thursday, the motorized scooters dropped into Google Maps, inching us ever closer to e-scooter world domination.
On the Google Maps mobile app, a scooter option showing nearby Lime scooters will come up when mapping out directions on transit. The app will show if a scooter is available, how many others are nearby, how long it'll take to walk to the scooter, and an estimate of how much your ride will cost.
In the U.S., Lime rides cost $1 to unlock and 15 cents per minute.
Clicking on the Lime option doesn't mean you can rent a scooter straight through the navigation app. Instead, that opens up the standalone Lime app -- and if you don't have it, you'll need to download it and sign up to use the e-scooters.
There's also the safety issue of riders not having a helmet on them to ride the scooters if an impromptu trip comes up. Though, starting in January, adults in California can decide if they want to protect themselves on the motorized vehicles.
Lime scooters on Google Maps is first available in Auckland, New Zealand; Austin; Baltimore; Brisbane, Australia; Dallas; Indianapolis; Los Angeles; San Diego; Oakland; San Antonio, Texas; San Jose, California; Scottsdale, Arizona, and Seattle. Google says more cities will offer the feature soon. More than 100 cities offer Lime vehicles like scooters and bicycles.
Like we said: world domination.
UPDATE: March 4, 2019, 2:20 p.m. PST After the initial cities with Lime availability on Google Maps went live in December, Google added 80 more cities worldwide this weekend. Now Google Maps users on Android and iOS can rent Lime e-scooters and bicycles in these places:
In the U.S.:
Arizona (Mesa, Scottsdale) Arkansas (Little Rock) California (Monterey, Mountain View, San Marcos, Santa Barbara) Colorado (Denver) Florida (Miami, Orlando) Georgia (Atlanta, Statesboro) Idaho (Boise) Indiana (Bloomington, South Bend) Kentucky (Louisville) Massachusetts (Arlington, Bedford, Belmont, Chelsea, Everett, Malden, Medford, Melrose, Milton, Needham, Newton, Revere, Waltham, Watertown, Winthrop) Michigan (Lansing) Nevada (Reno) Missouri (St. Louis) New Jersey (Keyport, Metuchen, Plainsfield), New York (Ithaca, Queens, Rockaways) North Carolina (Charlotte, Charlottesville, Greensboro, Greenville, Jacksonville, Raleigh/Durham) Ohio (Columbus, Oxford) Oklahoma (Oklahoma City, Tulsa) Rhode Island (Providence) Tennessee (Memphis, Nashville) Texas (Corpus Christi, Lubbock) Utah (Salt Lake City) Virginia (Harrisonburg) Washington (Tacoma) Washington, D.C.
Internationally:
Brussels Calgary ChristChurch London Lyon Madrid Malaga Malmö Marseille Mexico City Milton Keynes Oxford Pamplona Paris Poznan Stockholm Sydney Tel Aviv Vienna Warsaw Wellington Wroclaw Zaragoza
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Sasha is a news writer at Mashable's San Francisco office. She's an SF native who went to UC Davis and later received her master's from the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. She's been reporting out of her hometown over the years at Bay City News (news wire), SFGate (the San Francisco Chronicle website), and even made it out of California to write for the Chicago Tribune. She's been described as a bookworm and a gym rat.
