Self-driving SCOOTERS will drive themselves back to charging points and busy areas

Self-driving scooters could soon be whizzing around without riders in a tech development designed to improve cities' transport-sharing networks. A California-based start-up, Tortoise, is working on self-driving technology with which bikes and scooters drive themselves home after someone has used them. And taxi-hailing app Uber announced earlier in the year that it was working towards the same goal. Set to launch next month, the initiative is a progression for the temporary bike, scooter and Segway hire schemes which already exist around the world. It could mean fewer of the bikes and scooters are left lying around in obscure places and that they all return to charging stations or busy areas when not in use.