Steal to keep?
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Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 22 hours ago
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.
Gonzako@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 22 hours ago
This one cool trick rideshare companies don’t want you to know.
spoiler
Its 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 21 hours ago
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 15 hours ago
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.
KeenFlame@feddit.nu 19 hours ago
No it does not take one to know one, you can also just know about vandalist boys anyway
jballs@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
“Steal to keep”: It’s the new “rent to own”.
thisbenzingring@lemmy.today 21 hours ago
abandoning it blocking traffic
lol
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
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 22 hours 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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Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 22 hours 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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