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What makes you think city run scooters would be so much more effective? I agree payment should be standardized and unified. But competition is a strong motive f
by yholio 7y ago
What makes you think city run scooters would be so much more effective? I agree payment should be standardized and unified. But competition is a strong motive for innovation. For example, it could push providers to increase the range, safety and reliability, we could have self driving scooters that slowly go to the charging locations by themselves.
- lm28469 7y ago> What makes you think city run scooters would be so much more effective? No race to the bottom, no barely legal practices (through loopholes), stable prices, cheaper (or included in existing subscriptions), proper docks respecting the public space, local money not going to foreign companies which have a tendency to do everything to avoid paying their taxes, &c. > For example, it could push providers to increase the range, safety and reliability It's a scooter, 2 wheels, brakes, a few lights, boom done. Let the scooter manufacturers do the """innovation""", the company operating them doesn't have to create them. If they cared about safety they would have found a system to attach an helmet on the damn thing, which would probably take care of the majority of major injuries. > we could have self driving scooters that slowly go to the charging locations by themselves. I don't see that happening for so many reasons that I honestly fail to understand how someone could come up with that idea.
- yholio 7y agoSelf driving a 10Kg electric scooter on a dedicated lane to a nearby charging spot seems an orders of magnitude simpler problem than self driving 2 ton car in heavy traffic with people on board.