Why would any municipality agree to this nonsense?
$10 to start. But, how do the batteries get recharged?
How also, would they be paid for it?
Listen, spare me the horsecrap explanations, and just solve this for me: if a legally-rented bicycle is left dockless by a paying customer at La Cienega & Rosewood, and then ridden illegally by someone else to Sunset & Fairfax, who is financially responsible for that additional ride?
Right?
Now, we come to dockless EV conveyances.
In addition to the previous question, I have just one more: how and where do these dockless EV devices get their catteries recharged?
Solar?
While cities have all these visions of millions of dollars from startups in this field dancing before their eyes, the reality is, these schemes have every indication of being just this side, legally, of a con.
And not even a long con, either.
Mix in cultural differences, and now, you have a problem.
Just because a pilot program worked in some Euro nation, doesn’t mean it would work here. Not at all.
Then, you have the ridership.
In every promotional media for these ‘creations’, it seems to target a certain demographic.
And unless that demographic can produce profits, these schemes are doomed.
Now, let us move on to societal concerns.
Ride this bike in certain gang territory, and you're just asking for it!
Can you see some rando millennial safely tooling around on an EV scooter in the C-P-T, Compton?
Or on the Eastside?
Me neither.
The perp of this flagrant millennialness would probably get #$%@&^ for being a complete doofus in the neighborhood, bringing down home prices in the process.
Homie just won’t survive.
Source: Citylab.
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