> there was an unprecedented rejection of the ‘free-floating’ model from the people. This was due to operators dumping too many bikes all at once, resulting in

> there was an unprecedented rejection of the ‘free-floating’ model from the people. This was due to operators dumping too many bikes all at once, resulting in cluttering, but also lack of direct ‘community’ benefits. In order to fix this and to re-align the incentives with the citizens, we decided to make them a part of pony by creating the ‘Adopt-a-Pony’ scheme. This scheme lets users ‘acquire’ a pony and rent it out on the platform.