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• Xylakant 10y ago
  The DB has a bike-sharing offer (Call-a-Bike) as well as a car sharing offer (Flinkster). Call-a-Bike used to be free-floating in a lot of locations, among them Cologne and Berlin, but that changed to a station/dock based system a few years ago. It's supposed to be changing back to free-floating again, at least in Berlin. The bikes all have a distinct build and color and a Box with a simple touch display and a lock. Even before smartphones you could just text a number and it would send an unlock code. To drop the bike off you'd lock it and call an automated system to give it the displayed confirmation code. That was actually pretty nifty, I liked and used it a lot. The CCC did a tear down of one of the bikes https://www.ccc.de/en/hackabike https://www.ccc.de/en/hackabike
  • philfrasty 10y ago
    Definitely free-floating over here in Munich.