Huh. The chinese rideshare mopeds have a little speaker that begs you to stop violating traffic law and ride safely, but the literally only dock your score for trying to destroy the bike or abandoning it blocking traffic. You can steal 1 moped for every 100 rides and still maintain a perfect score.
Surely 100 rides would cost more than just getting your own scooter that didn’t have all the spyware built into it
100 20 minute rides is 31USD. They also sell the mopeds, 250-500 USD. The rental ones are limited to 16 mph tho. The real convenience is that you can grab one almost anywhere and leave it nearly anywhere so it integrates really well with other modes of transit.
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Steal to keep?
This one cool trick rideshare companies don’t want you to know.
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Its a joke, the penalty for destroying or stealing one is -100, but you get +1 for every ride, and your score can go over 100. In reality the company probably calls the cops if you lock it in your garage and won’t give it back or something.
“Steal to keep”: It’s the new “rent to own”.
“Removal of shoes is not allowed on a PaveCorp sidewalk. A $20 surcharge has been added to your walk today.”
That’s actually fair, they don’t want people trashing their equipment.
I wonder what kind of message they zap to people’s phones when the lime bikes are dumped into rivers & lakes & dumpsters?
It would be kinda stupid to rent it to do that. I think most people who do that just pick it up when its standing around somewhere
Yeah I was being facetious. Those things annoy me so much all I want to do is throw them into a dumpster.
Why? They’re like so useful
I live in a city where they are scattered everywhere constantly blocking traffic & pedestrian walkways. Furthermore I’ve tried to rent one before but it didn’t work, made me go through the whole app & sign up process & payment before it told me the bike wasn’t charged & didn’t work, but the app sure was happy to take my money! I give these things the stink eye every time I see one.
Never thought I’d live to see the day where they outlawed tricks smh
To the Faraday cages with you!
I live in Europe. I once completely crashed one, along with myself, due to a huge pothole. Even though it’s totally obvious what happened based on speed data alone, they never reached out to me about it.
Should be noted it was fully functional, just probably scratched, maybe the handlebar slightly misaligned.
I’m in Finland. We have pedestrian/bike paths that sometimes go under roads. Over here the underpass tunnels sometimes get flooded in the heavy rains.
In the Plague Years, I was on an app scoot when it was raining, noticed the underpass had water up to my ankles, so I said “YOLOoooo” out loud and pushed through. Even though the official app scoot company policy at the time was Will You Please Not Do That.
Hey, the scoot was completely fine! Received no complaints! You see, fleet vehicles like these are pretty sturdy compared to retail models. A little bit of water? No problem. I assume the scoots they have to fish out of the river, or find from under the snow banks when they melt in the spring, may have some mechanical problems, yeah.
True, they are quite durable. And it makes perfect sense. Otherwise the companies would have to spend considerably more on repairs or replacements, and potentially go out of business. Though sometimes people overestimate this sturdiness (or more likely just don’t care). In Romania, or at least in Bucharest, it’s quite common to find rental scooters thrown in the river. Not sure if they’re able to survive it.
Those scooters exist in Romania? I would’ve thought they’d get stolen on Day 1, scrapped for parts and sold online lol.
Should be noted it was fully functional, just probably scratched, maybe the handlebar slightly misaligned.
Impressive stuff no doubt, well done mate. And how did the scooter fare?
fucking tired of these garbage machines littering the sidewalks.
Lime are not Xtreme enough for their customers.
