It sort of looks like litter when I see all the bikes and scooters just left on sidewalks all over town.
Uber Will Rent Scooters Through Its App in Partnership with Lime
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#12Why not keep the scooters in the cars. Grab one on the way out, leave it behind when you get home. Request an uber with a scooter in it. There will have to be some leveling between cars but that’s surely easier than blanketing the city.
Why would I need a scooter when the uber takes me door to door. Mass transit would benefit better from a scooter partnership.
For carpooling where you’d normally walk the final portion. Also for multiple destinations with short hops between them.
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#13Scooters are ruining Austin. Fuck The Scooters!
No they aren't, they're probably saving downtown Austin's transportation woes. Decades of failed resolutions by the city council to provide expanded public transportations for an extremely high growth city have brought us to this point, one where the market had to come up with a solution. I'd imagine more regulations are probably due in the near future.
It is typical that a market will produce a solution before a government, isn't it?
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#14Well, that's going to kill Bird.
We will see. Been "workating" with my family in LA for a few weeks and we ended up using Bird much more especially because it looks like Lime require you to pay in bundles (10usd) and there are just way more Birds available than Limes. It might change now that Uber is involved but they would have to increase their scooters fleet quite a lot I think. Been interesting because in New York Bird isn't something people tal…
Where I live (San Diego), Lime and Bird have swapped places a couple of times for who has the most scooters on the street. They are both being really aggressive in increasing the number of units. It's not uncommon to see 10 of each lined up on a sidewalk.
It's also been fun to watch both companies experiment and revise their hardware. The original Lime scooters were slow and the Bird scooters were much stronger. With the v2 of each, it is reversed.
But from what I've heard second hand, increasing the number of units on the street isn't that expensive. I've heard that the units cost them in bulk ~$250 each and they quickly (< 3 months) earn that back. So the investment to blanket a city with scooters is way less than you'd expect and not the main barrier to entry. Of course that's second hand, so I could be totally wrong.
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#15This partnership could also allow Uber driver partners to basically have another source of income - rebalancing the scooter/bike network and helping with charging (ex. someone drives for Uber Eats, drops off a scooter at pickup restaurant to charge). Current Lime freelance chargers are making ~$1400 earnings per month[1] so this could start being substantial and help the growth for both companies
[1] https://www.axios.com/how-lime-is-pitching-its-bike-a-152949...
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#16It sort of looks like litter when I see all the bikes and scooters just left on sidewalks all over town.
Just the bikes and scooters? Not, say, the idle cars left on streets all over town?
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#17Why not keep the scooters in the cars. Grab one on the way out, leave it behind when you get home. Request an uber with a scooter in it. There will have to be some leveling between cars but that’s surely easier than blanketing the city.
Not sure exactly what you are thinking, but I do think empowering Uber drivers to relocate scooters to high demand areas (where the driver tends to also go) would make a lot of sense.
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#18Scooters are ruining Austin. Fuck The Scooters!
How, exactly?
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
No they aren't, they're probably saving downtown Austin's transportation woes. Decades of failed resolutions by the city council to provide expanded public transportations for an extremely high growth city have brought us to this point, one where the market had to come up with a solution. I'd imagine more regulations are probably due in the near future.
It is typical that a market will produce a solution before a government, isn't it?
Yes, but only for people who can afford it.
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#20Well, that's going to kill Bird.
I doubt it. The market is diverse enough to enjoy both products. I like Bird (in San Antonio) and hope that it either gets acquired by Lyft or becomes strong independently.