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[–] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 129 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Huh. The chinese rideshare mopeds have a little speaker that begs you to stop violating traffic law and ride safely, but the literally only dock your score for trying to destroy the bike or abandoning it blocking traffic. You can steal 1 moped for every 100 rides and still maintain a perfect score.

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 48 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Surely 100 rides would cost more than just getting your own scooter that didn't have all the spyware built into it

[–] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 62 points 2 weeks ago

100 20 minute rides is 31USD. They also sell the mopeds, 250-500 USD. The rental ones are limited to 16 mph tho. The real convenience is that you can grab one almost anywhere and leave it nearly anywhere so it integrates really well with other modes of transit.

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[–] Gonzako@lemmy.world 22 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 38 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This one cool trick rideshare companies don't want you to know.

spoilerIts a joke, the penalty for destroying or stealing one is -100, but you get +1 for every ride, and your score can go over 100. In reality the company probably calls the cops if you lock it in your garage and won't give it back or something.

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.today 27 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

there was a story about someone kidnapping all the scooters and piling them up in one parking lot, cops were called

i think it was in the Seattle area. In my town, we have a river running through the central space and so many of these scooters end up in the river

when I was a trouble making boy, we'd steal bikes and build ramps to jump into the river on the bikes, they lower the river for a few months every year and it was always a good laugh to see how many bikes were piled up in our favorite spots

my hometown is full of deviants, so I'm never surprised about seeing that kind of behavior

my cameras are always catching some young person looking for trouble, taking one to know one I make sure to keep everything valuable out of sight and behind locks

[–] socsa@piefed.social 9 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Everyone hates those fucking things. Always blocking the sidewalk and nearly getting run over every fucking block. It is everyone's civic duty to throw them in the fucking river if presented the opportunity.

[–] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 9 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Part of that is anti-social behavior as a response to living in America, but also if people aren't parking them correctly, there's not enough parking room. If people are riding on sidewalks, there's not enough divided bike lane.

Here in Nanning, during rush hour, theres places where 2-lane wide bike paths are completely packed with hundreds of mopeds per minute, much more than the 5 lane car road next to it can transport.

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[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.today 7 points 2 weeks ago

I'd be against it, but our river is already a massive PCB wasteland from the papermill and other industry dumping.

all jokes aside, don't throw shit in the waterways

[–] KeenFlame@feddit.nu 8 points 2 weeks ago

No it does not take one to know one, you can also just know about vandalist boys anyway

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 weeks ago

"Steal to keep": It's the new "rent to own".

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[–] unknownuserunknownlocation@kbin.earth 97 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I mean, to be fair, at least they give you a warning. And honestly, I think it's pretty fair to not allow things that wear down the scooter quickly.

[–] Gonzako@lemmy.world 24 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

You give a hand, they take the arm.

[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 92 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's not that deep. They just don't want you to break their shit.

[–] Siethron@lemmy.world 26 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 34 points 2 weeks ago

.....God dammit.

[–] 0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)
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[–] UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world 18 points 2 weeks ago

Stop using their service then?

[–] Domitian@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You rent something, they expect that you use it responsively

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[–] SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 54 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

"Removal of shoes is not allowed on a PaveCorp sidewalk. A $20 surcharge has been added to your walk today."

[–] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 45 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

That's actually fair, they don't want people trashing their equipment.

[–] JennaR8r@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I wonder what kind of message they zap to people's phones when the lime bikes are dumped into rivers & lakes & dumpsters?

[–] meekah@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

It would be kinda stupid to rent it to do that. I think most people who do that just pick it up when its standing around somewhere

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[–] tresspass@lemmy.world 42 points 2 weeks ago

Never thought I'd live to see the day where they outlawed tricks smh

[–] DupaCycki@lemmy.world 34 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I live in Europe. I once completely crashed one, along with myself, due to a huge pothole. Even though it's totally obvious what happened based on speed data alone, they never reached out to me about it.

Should be noted it was fully functional, just probably scratched, maybe the handlebar slightly misaligned.

[–] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 12 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I'm in Finland. We have pedestrian/bike paths that sometimes go under roads. Over here the underpass tunnels sometimes get flooded in the heavy rains.

In the Plague Years, I was on an app scoot when it was raining, noticed the underpass had water up to my ankles, so I said "YOLOoooo" out loud and pushed through. Even though the official app scoot company policy at the time was Will You Please Not Do That.

Hey, the scoot was completely fine! Received no complaints! You see, fleet vehicles like these are pretty sturdy compared to retail models. A little bit of water? No problem. I assume the scoots they have to fish out of the river, or find from under the snow banks when they melt in the spring, may have some mechanical problems, yeah.

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[–] PolarKraken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Should be noted it was fully functional, just probably scratched, maybe the handlebar slightly misaligned.

Impressive stuff no doubt, well done mate. And how did the scooter fare?

[–] REDACTED@infosec.pub 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It disappeared into the pothole

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[–] lime@feddit.nu 30 points 2 weeks ago

i know what you did

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 29 points 2 weeks ago

To the Faraday cages with you!

[–] turtlesareneat@piefed.ca 28 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I have definitely jumped a curb with them and did not know they tracked this, thanks for the heads up... damn

[–] Gonzako@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Use virtual CCs and proxy emails and start learning some tricks

[–] kungen@feddit.nu 11 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

They most likely track your IMEI and other such fun stuff, just so you're aware.

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[–] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 5 points 2 weeks ago

That's the plan! I was avoiding them, because fuck lime. Now I might try them for the same reason.

[–] FishFace@piefed.social 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't understand why this is a shitpost

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[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

While we're here ... how do you go about removing the batteries from these things? (For academic purposes only, of course.)

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 15 points 2 weeks ago

wheel spinning

That's the point, innit?

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 11 points 2 weeks ago

The trick is to ride away smoothly.

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

fucking tired of these garbage machines littering the sidewalks.

[–] AccoSpoot1@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

Lime are not Xtreme enough for their customers.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Is this a rental thing or do you "own" the vehicle?

(Own is in quotations becsuse what you and I would consider to be ownership isn't necessarily what the LAW says is ownership)

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 25 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Lime is one of those scooter share companies that dumped a bunch of electric scooters in city centers overnight with QR codes to use an app to pay to unlock and begin riding them

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