Comment on Lime bikes dumped in canals and rivers 'posing pollution risk'

Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• IcyToes@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The problem is it’s done by folk that don’t pay and probably covering their face. The fact the company thinks it’s cheaper to lose bikes than pay rent for land for stations to secure the bikes between customers is the problem. They don’t care.

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  • Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The modern bikes need an account with valid fiscal info to unlock. There is no way to “not pay”.

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    • Womble@lemmy.world ⁨48⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      There absolutely is, people break the disabling mechanism. I’ve had two go past me today with the obvious clack-clack-clack-clack of it.

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• Creat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Sounds nice until you think about the implications for everyone that doesn’t vandalize or destroy these bikes. I’m most certainly not going to rent one if it has 360° surveillance capabilities.

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  • Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The recording nedds to be saved only when the accelerometer detects the bike being thrown.

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    • Creat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yes totally. I would trust any company to always do this the right way. And there would never be an incident where some footage gets leaked, or passed around the office. “Oops there must have been a malfunction”.

      Yes like Amazon AND Google haven’t been caught saving private conversations that their voice assistants recorded totally unintentionally even though they weren’t triggered. They did totally say “sorry” and won’t do it again, ever. Right? Right?

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      • Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Sure, if you live in a shithole country like the US or a wanna-be-shithile country like the UK, companies can just trample you privacy. But in the EU, privacy is protected and you can easily introduce legislation that any non-government surveillance needs to be set up in a way that makes automatic permanent surveillance impossible.

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    • Thassodar@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Sounds like a lot of technology on something that can and will be trashed by the public.

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• TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  So constant 360° surveillance?

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  • Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    You only need to save the recording when the bike’s accelerometer detects the bike being thrown.

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• wewbull@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  …or have decent security on them that can’t be broken by a 12yo.

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