> "give your commute a higher purpose with zero carbon emissions." Can people please stop claiming electric vehicles are zero emissions?
up to 0 emissions
Bird One Scooter – Pre-Order
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Re: Bird One Scooter – Pre-Order
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
Here's how I keep this straight mentally. The rule is, in English, you can make a noun possessive by adding "'s" to the end. Let me emphasize one part: that's the rule to make A NOUN possessive. "It" is a pronoun, not a noun! The rule doesn't apply any more than it applies to a verb or an adjective. Hence you don't have stuff like "you's", "he's", "she's", "we's", or "I's", and you also don't have "it's".
Pretty sure we do actually have he's and she's. "He's being an idiot", or "she's wrong about that."
You're just proving the point: "'s" is only possessive for a noun. Your examples aren't possessives.
Re: Bird One Scooter – Pre-Order
#43Hard to compete with what's out there in the market. Service centers aren't that big of a selling point when you can buy these around $500. I think they're better off raising the price to $2K and adding some "Level 2" autonomy to it.
Re: Bird One Scooter – Pre-Order
#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
Here's how I keep this straight mentally. The rule is, in English, you can make a noun possessive by adding "'s" to the end. Let me emphasize one part: that's the rule to make A NOUN possessive. "It" is a pronoun, not a noun! The rule doesn't apply any more than it applies to a verb or an adjective. Hence you don't have stuff like "you's", "he's", "she's", "we's", or "I's", and you also don't have "it's".
Pretty sure we do actually have he's and she's. "He's being an idiot", or "she's wrong about that."
Yes, but as a contraction of "he is", not as a possessive.
Re: Bird One Scooter – Pre-Order
#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
Here's how I keep this straight mentally. The rule is, in English, you can make a noun possessive by adding "'s" to the end. Let me emphasize one part: that's the rule to make A NOUN possessive. "It" is a pronoun, not a noun! The rule doesn't apply any more than it applies to a verb or an adjective. Hence you don't have stuff like "you's", "he's", "she's", "we's", or "I's", and you also don't have "it's".
Pretty sure we do actually have he's and she's. "He's being an idiot", or "she's wrong about that."
Those are contractions, not possessives. "He is" and "she is", just like "it's" is always a contraction, never a possessive.
Re: Bird One Scooter – Pre-Order
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
Here's how I keep this straight mentally. The rule is, in English, you can make a noun possessive by adding "'s" to the end. Let me emphasize one part: that's the rule to make A NOUN possessive. "It" is a pronoun, not a noun! The rule doesn't apply any more than it applies to a verb or an adjective. Hence you don't have stuff like "you's", "he's", "she's", "we's", or "I's", and you also don't have "it's".
Pretty sure we do actually have he's and she's. "He's being an idiot", or "she's wrong about that."
Those are not possessives. They're contractions, like it's.
Re: Bird One Scooter – Pre-Order
#47I wonder how that works in practice. The scooter looks like a Bird scooter and is branded with Bird logos. If you leave it anywhere, won't people take it and try to ride it?
Yes. My friend has the same Xiaomi Mi scooter that Bird uses, and we're in a busy Bird market. He usually parks it within line of sight and often has to pester riders to quit trying to ride it away. In one case, a Bird charger took it (assuming it was broken) and he had to trace it back via a GPS tracker he installed. Even though it's very obvious it's not a Bird (no labeling, doesn't have the large box on the handle…
The Xiaomi is small enough to take indoors. Why not do that?
Re: Bird One Scooter – Pre-Order
#48Better option is to find cities impounding abandoned scooters and auctioning them off. They can be repurposed with a new IC from China.
I've been looking but haven't been able to find any. Has anyone had any luck?
For auctions [0]? Or hardware [1]?
[0] https://www.usa.gov/state-surplus-sales
[1] https://www.ebay.com/itm/Durable-Board-Dashboard-bluetooth-M...
Re: Bird One Scooter – Pre-Order
#49Evidence their business model isn’t working out. Their scooters (along with all the other companies) have all but disappeared from my area, where they once littered the sidewalk. Once you fall once or twice on these scooters, it’s hard to ride them again. Especially when it’s the scooter that’s broken, as is often the case. It’s a shrinking market base, consequently. They (Uber-Jump, Lime) should have given incentive…
Isn't that a public policy result more than a business result? They would still be around but cities have cracked down.
Re: Bird One Scooter – Pre-Order
#50This seems like a rip-off, and a pretty high-risk buy given how new Bird is to hardware...
With a quick Google search, you can find the same Segway scooter that many of the scooter companies (including Bird) have used for around $500, new.