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[–] 125 points 6 months ago (13 children)

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.

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  • [–] 47 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Surely 100 rides would cost more than just getting your own scooter that didn't have all the spyware built into it

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  • [–] 58 points 6 months ago

    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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  • [–] [S] 21 points 6 months ago (9 children)
  • [–] 39 points 6 months ago (7 children)

    This one cool trick rideshare companies don't want you to know.

    spoilerIts 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.

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  • [–] 26 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    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

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Oh absolutely. Though it has been a point of frustration how often they get put in bike corrals. Cyclists who own our bikes need those to lock our bikes up.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago*

    I meant it the other way; the city not building enough room for parking 2-wheeled vehicles leads to people throwing them wherever. In the picture, they're just past the limit and people have started to resort to not giving a shit. Spending a hundred bucks adding an extra bike rack is so trivial next to reallocating RoW from cars to more efficient modes of transportation.

    This is also supported by cops coming along and stealing anything illegally parked during the night.

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