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It looks like a marketing play. There are studies proving that Uber is increasing traffic and pollution (not even talking about workspace issues and drivers exp
by neves 9y ago
It looks like a marketing play. There are studies proving that Uber is increasing traffic and pollution (not even talking about workspace issues and drivers explotation). Bikes are eco-friendly and everybody like them.
- olivermarks 9y agoI think marketing play too - there has been so much negative press about Uber they badly needed an ecologically sound, 'no victims' vehicle to move people's minds away from the self driving car death of a bicycle pusher, and the Travis Kalanick era'Fight Club film extra' visuals a lot of people see as the Uber brand...
- bfuller 9y ago>everybody like them. not entirely true concerning the bike share companies. when they are fighting for dominance like they are in Dallas, the city gets littered with the bikes and people start vandalizing them. This happened in Paris so much that the dockless bikeshares pulled out.
- baud147258 9y agoThe dockless bikeshares pulled out of most of the city where they tried to deploy in France.
- bfuller 9y agoI can only hope we in Dallas can achieve the same.