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I live in Nashville and the city just impounded 411 Bird Scooters which effectively caused them to halt operation temporarily[1]. While Tennessee the state is c

I live in Nashville and the city just impounded 411 Bird Scooters which effectively caused them to halt operation temporarily[1]. While Tennessee the state is conservative, Nashville the city is quite liberal. The biggest concern that citizens and the city has is the mentality that when your done with the scooter you can just leave it in the middle of the sidewalk or anywhere you please. Bird needs to be proactive about it, and start charging fines and fees to users who don't properly put the scooters away. Ultimately Bird needs to setup "nests" pod that are designated pickup and dropoff points to fully address the problem. [1] https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2018/06/07/bird-scooters-impounded-nashville-thursday/681281002/ https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2018/06/07/bird-scoote...

lainga 8y ago
building off beenBoutIT's comment later on down the thread, someone in a city with an eager police force could maybe in theory - not giving any suggestions - kick over a stand of Lime scooters and run away, making them flood the police with calls, and irritating them enough to pull strings and make the city ban them. Just try to do it all at once, so the calls are bunched up temporally and interfere as little as possible with legitimate 911 calls. Just in theory. I have no opinion on these scooters.