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> Just like it's also way easier for you to pick up the bike and put it away 2m further if that's less annoying Which is exactly the point: I don't use those b
by Ecco 9y ago
> Just like it's also way easier for you to pick up the bike and put it away 2m further if that's less annoying
Which is exactly the point: I don't use those bikes, and still I have to get them out of my way. That's the nuisance.
That's exactly why parking in such places is illegal in the first place. But with those rental bikes this is very hard to enforce (because it's virtually impossible for the police to tell who parked the bike). And I think Gobee should have been banned in Paris because their whole business model encourages such a behavior in cities where there is so little parking places.
> Perhaps not always right in front of the place one wants to be, but still..
I agree, but that's precisely the issue. The problem here is that the model encourages users to just not care about the bike (because they're anonymous and because they don't care about the bike). Sure, in the end, if users were perfect Gobee would be great. But you know this is never the case as soon as there is some level of anonymity (why do would most websites have captchas then?).
- icebraining 9y agoit's virtually impossible for the police to tell who parked the bike In theory, it should be easy: Gobee has that info. Has the police asked?
- Freak_NL 9y agoThere are a lot of problems with fining someone after the fact. You have no proof that the last renter actually left the bicycle exactly like that (they may have left it neatly parked just a few metres away and someone purposely moved it), and the renter is quite likely to be a foreign tourist (fining them is near impossible without the benefit of a license plate like you have with a car).
- icebraining 9y agoYou have no proof that the last renter actually left the bicycle exactly like that (they may have left it neatly parked just a few metres away and someone purposely moved it) How so? Gobee can just check where it was the moment the renter locked it. the renter is quite likely to be a foreign tourist (fining them is near impossible without the benefit of a license plate like you have with a car). Gobee uses digital payment systems, which are not anonymous.
- Freak_NL 9y agoGobee knows who paid, but that doesn't mean the municipal police can fine that person using the same payment method. Getting fines paid by foreigners is a hard problem to solve, because ignoring these fines even if your address is known just works for most people.
- thinkythought 9y agothe GPS on these is insanely inaccurate on all the systems we have locally. It barely waits to get a lock to save power, and is often off by half a block or more. It's never fine grained enough to tell which area of the sidewalk it was on (I've talked to the people who move the bikes about this as well, since they have a hell of a time finding them sometimes)