Uber Will Rent Scooters Through Its App in Partnership with Lime
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#2Well, that's going to kill Bird.
Re: Uber Will Rent Scooters Through Its App in Partnership with Lime
#3Once again a successful prediction from Ben Thompson.
Re: Uber Will Rent Scooters Through Its App in Partnership with Lime
#4Well, 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 talk about where as here it was everywhere (didn't hurt we lived at Venice beach either).
One thing I realized is how much the ability to just leave your bird/lime anywhere and just pick it up where it is, affects your desire to use it.
We will see the same uptick in bicycles in NY I think once you are not required to park them at specific places.
It's a little bit of a mess though especially down on the beach promenae but I think there are plenty of ways to encourage good behavior.
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#5Scooters are ruining Austin.
Fuck The Scooters!
Re: Uber Will Rent Scooters Through Its App in Partnership with Lime
#6Why 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.
Re: Uber Will Rent Scooters Through Its App in Partnership with Lime
#7Well, 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…
You should be able to get mostly the same benefit if there was plenty of places to park them.
I could theoretically rent a bicycle, but there are only four places I could park it.
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#8Scooters 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.
Re: Uber Will Rent Scooters Through Its App in Partnership with Lime
#9Why 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.
Re: Uber Will Rent Scooters Through Its App in Partnership with Lime
#10Scooters are ruining Austin. Fuck The Scooters!
Ugh.