Posted on 09/12/2018 4:24:04 AM PDT by Kaslin
When I see no fewer than 8 of these things laying scattered willy-nilly on the sides of the road and the sidewalks, dropped with no regard for other users of those same areas, then YES, that is the very definition of “litter”.
This is along a 2 mile stretch of a main thoroughfare within 1 mile of downtown.
I wasn't equating Uber with unregistered and uninsured vehicles. I was simply pointing out that even those who support these services based on "free market" principles recognize the need for regulation on some level.
Personally, I think Uber is eventually going to disappear. There's going to be a huge public outcry against it once you have large numbers of illegal immigrants among the drivers, undercutting American citizens who simply want to earn an honest living.
I would love to run it by Rebecca De Mornay.
Good Lord! Social justice scooters! Soon they will track LBQWERTY riders, tranny riders, by color, etc. Cannot have discrimination in scooter usage, even though they are out in the open and anybody can use them. More SF liberal insanity at work.
How will they collect the data? Will their apps ask for your last 1040 income?
I bet you hate bicycles too?
Nope. However, if it were up to me I’d never allow bikes and motor vehicles to operate in mixed traffic in urban areas.
>>Nope. However, if it were up to me I’d never allow bikes and motor vehicles to operate in mixed traffic in urban areas.
LOL. Bicycles are freedom!
The tragedy of the commons
Google it.
There is a detailed map on the 'net; what MORE could you want??
I just, and this is the literal just, not the internet just, rode one of those app bikes to the microbrew where I am enjoying a pint of a nitro stout and reading this on their wifi. It took about fifteen minutes and cost 1.33. The other evening my wife and I went to a concert and rather than parking at the venue, we grabbed a couple of those app bikes and rode 15 minutes across town and spent about 4.00 doing it, both bikes. They are hecka cool.
Really?
Unfortunately, most of them use public sidewalks, which transfers their injury-death risk to completely innocent pedestrians, like me.
Don’t solve the problem, just come up with compassionate web sites and media articles.
Math isn’t the strong point of your argument.
1) The scooters are about 6-700 a pop.
2) To activate the scooter, it’s $1.15.
3) Additional $0.15/minute.
The scooters are everywhere here in Charlotte, and easily paid themselves off by now.
If you have 10 riders a day, and each one goes 5 minutes, that’s $11.15 to activate and $5.75 for time. That’s a total of $16.85/day on average they make. (Some are more, some are less).
After 40 business days (8 weeks), you’ve made $674. In other words, by week 9, you’re profitable.
If you have 500 of them, you’re making $67,400/week. If you have employee costs of $12,000/week, you’re still making an over $55,000 profit per week. That’s over 2.8 million a year. And that’s one city. When you have it to 200 cities, you’re looking at $572 million a year profit.
I’d say the business model is VERY high. Their marketing consists of literally driving them out to locations and placing them around a city and they have to pay a programmer somewhere nationally (or 3 or 4) to write a web site. Their labor and expenses is VERY low.
Not mine to solve.
Fair enough. Factor in repairs, replacements, insurance, personnel. The advantage they have over Uber is: no driver nor driver support.
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