Re:Uber enters dockless bike wars with Jump acquisition
by neves on Monday April 09, 2018 @02:41PM
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It looks like a marketing play. There are studies proving that Uber is increasing traffic and pollution (not even talking about workspace issues and drivers explotation). Bikes are eco-friendly and everybody like them.
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Re:Uber enters dockless bike wars with Jump acquisition
by bfuller on Monday April 09, 2018 @05:49PM
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>everybody like them.
not entirely true concerning the bike share companies. when they are fighting for dominance like they are in Dallas, the city gets littered with the bikes and people start vandalizing them. This happened in Paris so much that the dockless bikeshares pulled out.
Re:Uber enters dockless bike wars with Jump acquisition
by baud147258 on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @04:08AM
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The dockless bikeshares pulled out of most of the city where they tried to deploy in France.
Re:Uber enters dockless bike wars with Jump acquisition
by bfuller on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @06:51AM
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I can only hope we in Dallas can achieve the same.
Re:Uber enters dockless bike wars with Jump acquisition
by olivermarks on Monday April 09, 2018 @02:48PM
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I think marketing play too - there has been so much negative press about Uber they badly needed an ecologically sound, 'no victims' vehicle to move people's minds away from the self driving car death of a bicycle pusher, and the Travis Kalanick era'Fight Club film extra' visuals a lot of people see as the Uber brand...