A strange new trend has been quietly wrecking the e-rickshaw drivers in Delhi, and most of them don't even know why it's happening to them. Across the capital, e-rickshaw drivers have been finding their vehicles suddenly dying in the middle of traffic, refusing to restart, with no visible fault, no warning light, and no mechanical explanation. The cause, it turns out, isn't a wiring fault or a drained battery. It's a smartphone app called BAT-BMS, and it's being used by pranksters to remotely shut down "tirris", the local nickname for battery-powered e-rickshaws, just for laughs, likes, and viral content.
Amid reports that e-rickshaws could be remotely shut down through the Chinese smartphone application BAT-BMS, the government said on Friday that two such apps had come to its notice and have since been removed from app stores.
