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In Copenhagen, scooters can only park in designated areas. Unfortunately, those areas are so small that you can be stuck with a scooter that is impossible to r
by sshine 3y ago
In Copenhagen, scooters can only park in designated areas.
Unfortunately, those areas are so small that you can be stuck with a scooter that is impossible to return, because the GPS tracker doesn’t update fast or precise enough.
And unfortunately, people still dump them on the side of the road if either they go out of their allowed area, or run out of juice.
Considering you can rent a car at a lower rate per minute with less fuss, I think these scooter companies just have a hard time accepting sunk cost.
- twiceaday 3y agoYet another business model that doesn't add up if you account for all negative externalities. Do you think the founders of these companies knew that before starting?
- sshine 3y agoI think the cost of entering is sufficiently low to get convinced that “this time, it will be different”. There is a YouTuber who collects and dumps them in piles, and it seems like the scooter companies have sufficient anti-theft measures in place to justify that the risk of theft is low.
- kergonath 3y agoThe founders went away with a whole bunch of VC money. They knew perfectly well what they were doing, and that was not establishing a sustainable business.
- houseatrielah 3y agoI'm sure there's a whole batch of companies that want to abuse the sidewalks. Robo-pizza delivery bot! Robo-package delivery bot! Mobile-advertising-bot! Paris will be perfectly fine with their world-class metro and world-famous urban environment.