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8 years ago
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on: Bird, Lime and Spin Receive Cease-And-desist Letters from SF City Attorney
Thanks for saying this. I wear a helmet every ride because I have a friend who bumped their head in a low speed over the handlebars crash. They seem fine but they won't taste or smell for the rest of their life.
r27d
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8 years ago
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on: Bird, Lime and Spin Receive Cease-And-desist Letters from SF City Attorney
That's mostly because of the culture of respect and patience amongst all modes in Holland. In Holland people queue politely on their single speed heavy bikes at stoplights while in San Francisco we've had multiple injuries this year on Market St from bike-on-bike collisions caused by people from the back of the "pack" timing out red lights and passing stopped riders at high speeds.
r27d
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8 years ago
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on: Bird, Lime and Spin Receive Cease-And-desist Letters from SF City Attorney
A human powered scooter is perfectly fine on the sidewalk. Luxe used them for their staff to get around. I'd love to see a non-motorized docked scooter startup.
r27d
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8 years ago
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on: Bird, Lime and Spin Receive Cease-And-desist Letters from SF City Attorney
None of those bikes we saw piled up in China were ebikes and they were all going to be recycled. The VW cars are awaiting regulatory approval for export or resale. The scooters on the other hand are difficult to recycle and weren't even designed for shared use.
r27d
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8 years ago
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on: Bird, Lime and Spin Receive Cease-And-desist Letters from SF City Attorney
They "pledged" that but relied on independent contractors to do all the collection and redistribution. They were not being picked up every night.
r27d
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8 years ago
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on: Bird, Lime and Spin Receive Cease-And-desist Letters from SF City Attorney
They were paying gig economy workers to collect them after 8pm, charge 10-30 at a time in their apartments, and redistribute from 5-8am. They paid some of these people to show up today and talk about how great it pays. I really wish they could talk to some Uber drivers from 2010.
r27d
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8 years ago
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on: Bird, Lime and Spin Receive Cease-And-desist Letters from SF City Attorney
$3 for a single 30 minute GoBike trip is expensive? 15 minutes on a Bird Scooter is $3.55. The GoBike stations are fairly dense you might have to walk a block or two.
https://member.fordgobike.com/map/
r27d
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8 years ago
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on: Bird, Lime and Spin Receive Cease-And-desist Letters from SF City Attorney
A 63 year old man tripped over one on his birthday and ended up in the emergency room with injuries.
r27d
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8 years ago
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on: Bird, Lime and Spin Receive Cease-And-desist Letters from SF City Attorney
Scooters that are available on Alibaba for $200 are not durable for shared use.
r27d
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8 years ago
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on: Uber enters dockless bike wars with Jump acquisition
They treated it like a slush-fund with no accountability. All of the projects were late and gave a feeling of "a little paint cost how much?" Now they're spending more money to make better bike lanes they could have built in the first place. That's a MPLS thing though. They're always trying to reinvent the wheel instead of using the good infrastructure that's been tried other places.
r27d
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8 years ago
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on: Uber enters dockless bike wars with Jump acquisition
You should get renter's insurance ($8/mo) which covers your Boosted Board or bike even when it is locked up somewhere other than your home.
r27d
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8 years ago
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on: Uber enters dockless bike wars with Jump acquisition
Personal e-bikes for $1000-2000 (same experience as Jump) can easily be under $.25 per ride. I have 1000+ rides and 4500 miles on my $1800 ebike in under a year and I could sell it for $1400.
r27d
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8 years ago
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on: Uber enters dockless bike wars with Jump acquisition
"coverage zone" hasn't stopped tourists from taking them to Sausalito
r27d
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8 years ago
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on: Uber enters dockless bike wars with Jump acquisition
Riding your bike to work was one of the only things that is the same in San Francisco no matter what socioeconomic class you're a part of. Jump changed that. Disappointing.
Everyone riding a bike used to deal with the same problems. Unfortunate as those problems are they could happen to a rich person, a poor person, or anyone in between which is an equitable sharing of the social cost. The privileged people used to be able to easily spend more money to replace a stolen bike which is the problem Jump solves for the people that can afford it. That's now a bigger burden on the people who can't afford Jump and are less likely to afford replacing a stolen bike at all.
r27d
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8 years ago
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on: Uber enters dockless bike wars with Jump acquisition
Not sure who you are but I bet we were friends. Left MPLS for SF. MPLS is "the best city" for nearly anything if you ask a local. Too bad they wasted the Non-Motorized Transportation Pilot $20M on shitty latex paint bike lanes at $75,000 per block.
r27d
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8 years ago
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on: Uber enters dockless bike wars with Jump acquisition
Walk to a Jump location in the app and there's no bike? Take an Uber
Find your Jump hasn't been charged and is dead? Take an Uber
Jumps are a little more expensive after a price increase? Take an Uber
r27d
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8 years ago
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on: A glut has used-car depreciation accelerating
r27d
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8 years ago
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on: A glut has used-car depreciation accelerating
The article neglects to mention Obama's $3 billion dollar Cash for Clunkers program in '08 which hurt used vehicle supply.
r27d
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9 years ago
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on: The Future of DoorDash Is Turning Delivery Into a Platform
Yes Prime Now does restaurants in SF
r27d
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13 years ago
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on: The Gmail app for iPhone and iPad: version 2.0
I'm getting "The item you tried to buy is no longer available." when I try to update.
