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I suspect that people will develop a cookbook method for taking a given scooter, quickly stripping away the tracking and locking elements, and just using or res
by masonic 8y ago
I suspect that people will develop a cookbook method for taking a given scooter, quickly stripping away the tracking and locking elements, and just using or reselling as a generic scooter.
There will be instructional videos on YouTube -- something like phone rooting how-to videos... or how :CueCat scanners were repurposed to generic scanners.
Craigslist is a ready marketplace for stolen property anyway.
- rorykoehler 8y agoWhy would anyone want to buy a scooter from craigslist when you can just walk outside and use the one on the street?
- repsilat 8y agoYeah, see Netflix for an example of this -- they leave their product "lying around" and people are plenty happy to pay for the convenience of getting it legitimately because it's so low friction, because it just works all the time and it's cheap enough.
- cesis 8y agoNew xiaomi scooter costs $499 from Amazon. Used ones would be way cheaper.
- DanBC 8y agoYou steal them form where they are and sell them where they aren't. See bike share schemes for an example of this happening already.
- rorykoehler 8y agoNegligible impact though. Most people don't have the appetite to engage in criminal activity, even once removed criminal activity. Also this is built into the pricing so we all end up paying for it.