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> The city is littered with e-scooters whose name changes every few months. You claim to be against monopolies but are unwilling to tolerate even the slight in
by kanox 6y ago
> The city is littered with e-scooters whose name changes every few months.
You claim to be against monopolies but are unwilling to tolerate even the slight inconvenience of seeing scooters parked around? I personally love them for their amazing convenience and they're also incredibly compact relative to cars or even bikes.
> If the business plan doesn't work out, who cleans up the satellites?
Cleaning up is essentially free as long as the satellites are still operational: just command them to deorbit. Orbits are low enough that the fuel required to deorbit is comparable to a few months of station-keeping.
- marcus_holmes 6y agoI'm not against the scooters being parked around. I'm against the flood of them, and them being abandoned in the middle of footpaths, cyclepaths, etc. They were a great novelty for a while. But I got over them. So if a satellite stops responding to commands, they're going to go get it? To make sure it doesn't hit anything else and cause more problems?