fucking tired of these garbage machines littering the sidewalks.
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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.
spoiler
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.
there was a story about someone kidnapping all the scooters and piling them up in one parking lot, cops were called
i think it was in the Seattle area. In my town, we have a river running through the central space and so many of these scooters end up in the river
when I was a trouble making boy, we'd steal bikes and build ramps to jump into the river on the bikes, they lower the river for a few months every year and it was always a good laugh to see how many bikes were piled up in our favorite spots
my hometown is full of deviants, so I'm never surprised about seeing that kind of behavior
my cameras are always catching some young person looking for trouble, taking one to know one I make sure to keep everything valuable out of sight and behind locks
Everyone hates those fucking things. Always blocking the sidewalk and nearly getting run over every fucking block. It is everyone's civic duty to throw them in the fucking river if presented the opportunity.
Part of that is anti-social behavior as a response to living in America, but also if people aren't parking them correctly, there's not enough parking room. If people are riding on sidewalks, there's not enough divided bike lane.
Here in Nanning, during rush hour, theres places where 2-lane wide bike paths are completely packed with hundreds of mopeds per minute, much more than the 5 lane car road next to it can transport.
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"Steal to keep": It's the new "rent to own".
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I don't understand why this is a shitpost
Is it a post? ✅ Is it shit? ✅
It is a shitpost.
I mean, to be fair, at least they give you a warning. And honestly, I think it's pretty fair to not allow things that wear down the scooter quickly.
You give a hand, they take the arm.
It's not that deep. They just don't want you to break their shit.
Stop using their service then?
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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
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So make sure to just smash up all the abandoned ones littering the streets.
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.
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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?
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Never thought I'd live to see the day where they outlawed tricks smh
"Removal of shoes is not allowed on a PaveCorp sidewalk. A $20 surcharge has been added to your walk today."
While we're here ... how do you go about removing the batteries from these things? (For academic purposes only, of course.)
To the Faraday cages with you!
i know what you did
I have definitely jumped a curb with them and did not know they tracked this, thanks for the heads up... damn
Use virtual CCs and proxy emails and start learning some tricks
They most likely track your IMEI and other such fun stuff, just so you're aware.
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The trick is to ride away smoothly.
wheel spinning
That's the point, innit?
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