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re: Bird Scooters appear over night in Baton Rouge
Posted on 12/14/18 at 11:14 am to HenryParsons
Posted on 12/14/18 at 11:14 am to HenryParsons
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Bird Scooters
Used these types of scooters when I visited San Fran. Pretty unique and cool way to get around. sucks going up hills and downtown San Fran is ALL hills. I believed they were called livewire or something like that
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Posted on 12/14/18 at 11:16 am to wildtigercat93
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I was happy with making 20-40 bucks a night when I had nothing to do
That's practically me. The first night they gave me the Lime chargers I did 5 just to try it out and got $20, picking them up, charging, reloading, and dropping off took all of 20 minutes of my time.
I just pulled up both apps, both Lime and Bird have drop off locations within a 1/2 block of my house. So basically I'm in a perfectly good spot to pick them up, charge them, and drop them with relative ease.
Posted on 12/14/18 at 11:26 am to Napoleon
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I heard there is decent money in scooping them up and charging them.
I just thought of a great idea for them or another company.
LSU Game Day. Set up mobile stations(like a flat bed with 30-40 of them) them in distant parking lots. As they get used for rides to tailgates and such, have some teens roaming campus and bringing them back to charging stations for $1 each(make it so they can attach several together and ride).
Posted on 12/14/18 at 11:40 am to PoppaD
All you have to do is lightly touch the handlebars, and the riders will go flying. If you want people to stop using them, make everyone crash
Posted on 12/14/18 at 11:49 am to Hammertime
you should say it again for a third time
Posted on 12/14/18 at 12:03 pm to HenryParsons
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I was in Memphis a couple months back and saw some stellar wipeouts and few near misses when people would blast through intersections.
I saw 3 of them on the corner of Brooks Rd and Elvis Presley last week. I'm guessing some people stole them from downtown and then abandoned them in South Memphis when they realized there were GPS trackers on them
Posted on 12/14/18 at 12:07 pm to HenryParsons
I rode the Bird scooters in Paris a few months ago. Very convenient and fun when you're trying to make it back to your hotel to grab your stuff for the train.
I just wish it had a GPS. I hit a curb and wrecked in front of a restaurant while looking at my phone. I also pissed two women off. They were hogging the sidewalk and when we got to a corner there was room to pass. As soon as I went to pass a lady stepped right in front of me and I bumped her out of my way.
I just wish it had a GPS. I hit a curb and wrecked in front of a restaurant while looking at my phone. I also pissed two women off. They were hogging the sidewalk and when we got to a corner there was room to pass. As soon as I went to pass a lady stepped right in front of me and I bumped her out of my way.
Posted on 12/14/18 at 12:09 pm to PortHudsonPlaya
These and the dockless bike shares have got to go. I've ridden the scooters. They are fun, sure, but they trash up walkways and can turn an otherwise scenic area into a dump. There were literally piles of them at the entrances to the beach in San Diego.
Posted on 12/14/18 at 12:11 pm to TypoKnig
All of these are going to end up in North Baton Rouge within the first few minutes
fify
fify
Posted on 12/14/18 at 12:30 pm to TOSOV
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you have to do it in the middle of the night. Since people shouldnt be on them at night you need to have them picked up between 9-11pm-ish. Charge them up, and have them out by 6am-ish. Like having a paper route
This makes no sense. When they run out of battery, which occurs all hours of the day, they are ready to be picked up.
And you can drop them off whenever you damn well please. You get paid whether or not people use them or not after you drop them off.
Posted on 12/14/18 at 12:32 pm to Ed Osteen
There are none by me, so IDGAF. If people want to complain about them, that's an option
Posted on 12/14/18 at 12:46 pm to HenryParsons
These things have descended like a plague of locusts on Austin since last spring. Last week Uber also announced that they'll be getting into the scooter game. It seems like the city is still figuring out how to manage them as far as the charging people dropping them off blocking a lot of the sidewalks and handicap access ramps. People love the convenience but it's the wild west right now dealing with these things on the streets, sidewalks, bike lanes, running lights, zipping between cars, and they're parked everywhere.
The CDC just announced that they will be doing a study on the scooters. Not sure what they'll be looking at but I'm pretty sure the conclusion will be that riding a scooter with small wheels without head protection in traffic is pretty hazardous to your health.
CDC scooter article
The CDC just announced that they will be doing a study on the scooters. Not sure what they'll be looking at but I'm pretty sure the conclusion will be that riding a scooter with small wheels without head protection in traffic is pretty hazardous to your health.
CDC scooter article
This post was edited on 12/14/18 at 12:50 pm
Posted on 12/14/18 at 12:46 pm to TheCaterpillar
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This makes no sense. When they run out of battery, which occurs all hours of the day, they are ready to be picked up.
Bird is like this, you can pick up at anytime, but it’s pretty rare to find them during the day besides on weekends because the peak times it gets used are at night.
Lime let’s you pick up ones that weren’t picked up the night before and are dead, but again those are pretty rare. All the other limes you can’t pick up until 9pm
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And you can drop them off whenever you damn well please. You get paid whether or not people use them or not after you drop them off.
Also false. With lime you can go back and charge them and put them right back out but they have to be back before 7am the next morning at the latest (again can’t oick them up until 9pm the previous night)
And with bird you can only release them from 4am-7 am
This post was edited on 12/14/18 at 12:48 pm
Posted on 12/14/18 at 12:52 pm to wildtigercat93
Oh I stand corrected. I thought my neighbor told me otherwise.
Maybe he meant any time before 7 when he said "whenever I want". He's an accountant in a cubicle during working hours
I've seen him with 20+ on his 4-wheeler trailer.
Maybe he meant any time before 7 when he said "whenever I want". He's an accountant in a cubicle during working hours
I've seen him with 20+ on his 4-wheeler trailer.
Posted on 12/14/18 at 1:06 pm to Tri City Tigers
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They were hogging the sidewalk and when we got to a corner there was room to pass. As soon as I went to pass a lady stepped right in front of me and I bumped her out of my way.
Don't ride on a sideWALK. Be a man and ride on the street so a car can hit you.
Posted on 12/14/18 at 1:13 pm to HenryParsons
San Diego they are great along the beach. "Lets Know Things" Podcast did an episode on these companies that was really interesting. Turns out the average life of the scooter is about 2 months being used in the public and they don't pay off the initial investment of purchasing the scooter until the 5th month on average. Terrible business model as of now but tons of investment money keeps pouring in. Ford planning to get in along with Tesla. Its a race to the bottom.
In San Francisco they kicked out Lime and Bird.
In San Francisco they kicked out Lime and Bird.
Posted on 12/14/18 at 1:22 pm to HenryParsons
Can you get a BWI on them?
Posted on 12/14/18 at 1:28 pm to Crow Pie
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BWI
ScootingWI
Posted on 12/14/18 at 2:01 pm to HenryParsons
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I was in Memphis a couple months back and saw some stellar wipeouts and few near misses when people would blast through intersections
Memphis has the worst drivers along with a ton of people walking around and riding bikes in the streets at all hours of the night. These scooters would be like adding fuel to the fire.
This post was edited on 12/14/18 at 2:02 pm
Posted on 12/14/18 at 2:05 pm to Cotten
quote:Is there some german word for when you realize the cause of your eventual death?
How long before some baw gets pissed at the bridge and I10 traffic being at a stand still and just hops on I10 with one?
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