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Ownership comes with significant inconveniences like having to transport and lock it up outside wherever you're going. A major convenience of Bird / Lime / etc
by tedmiston 7y ago
Ownership comes with significant inconveniences like having to transport and lock it up outside wherever you're going. A major convenience of Bird / Lime / etc is being able to just grab one at any location and then just leave it wherever when you're done, and not have to worry about these things.
- blackflame7000 7y agoYea that's true. Bird will always have the casual rider base that wants the convenience. I think the real money is in capturing the daily commuter, however.
- tedmiston 7y agoIt would be interesting to see Bird have an offering to address the daily commute, something to the effect of Lyft Line. I'd be curious to see an Uber's Ride Pass [1] for scooters. Where I live the scooters are mostly in very concentrated areas that few people would use them for commuting, either because they live in the suburbs (so far away it'd be impractical) or downtown (so close that you could walk nearly as fast as a scooter ride after accounting for sitting in rush hour traffic). [1]: https://www.uber.com/newsroom/ride-pass/ https://www.uber.com/newsroom/ride-pass/
- Someone 7y agoA major convenience of ownership is that, most of the time, a working vehicle will be available when you need it. To get that with a bike share program, bike share companies likely need to accept that their bikes get used less than once a day, on average. That means that users must pay for more than one bicycle. That, in turn, would make ownership cheaper than bikeshare programs.