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Re:Dock-less bike share is ready to take over U.S. cities by jdavis703 on Friday December 22, 2017 @10:28AM (#15988104)
Well the city should fine people who do this. Don't the bike share companies know who the last person was to park a bike?
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Re:Dock-less bike share is ready to take over U.S. cities by trothamel on Friday December 22, 2017 @10:38AM (#15988181)
Wouldn't the problem be that the bikes could be moved by people who want to get the last person in trouble?
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Re:Dock-less bike share is ready to take over U.S. cities by usrusr on Friday December 22, 2017 @11:45AM (#15988765)
Personal bikes tend to get locked to fixed objects. Anything that motivates users of dockless shared bikes to treat them more similar to personal bikes will be an improvement, in many ways.

The bigger question is how to generally proceed with making users responsible for anything, without driving them away?

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Re:Dock-less bike share is ready to take over U.S. cities by st3v3ndungan on Friday December 22, 2017 @12:26PM (#15989155)
This, I highly doubt that the person who last used the bike (and derived the benefit) is the one who chucked it into the river.
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Re:Dock-less bike share is ready to take over U.S. cities by s73ver_ on Friday December 22, 2017 @10:40AM (#15988193)
The bike company is ultimately the one responsible for the bike.
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