Re:Uber cuts 3000 more jobs, closes 45 offices
by mcculley on Monday May 18, 2020 @03:10PM
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I live in downtown Orlando. Lime, Lynx, and Bird have littered downtown with scooters. I run almost every day and they are often left directly in the middle of the sidewalk, either upright or fallen over. A couple months ago I began relocating any rental equipment I find in my way on the sidewalk. I am not at all gentle about this and I'm sure I have damaged some of the equipment. I like the idea that people might use these more than cars, but investors need to figure out a better way to store them than in the sidewalk.
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I get the anger about sidewalks getting littered with scooters, but damaging or destroying them is just creating more hazardous e-waste to be disposed of.
Re:Uber cuts 3000 more jobs, closes 45 offices
by heavyset_go on Monday May 18, 2020 @11:14PM
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There needs to be a more sustainable model for scooter rentals than "when the scooter breaks, we just throw it out and replace it with another $20 white label scooter from China"
The reason they're treated like trash, by both the company that put them there and by pedestrians, is because that is what they are.
Re:Uber cuts 3000 more jobs, closes 45 offices
by jmchuster on Monday May 18, 2020 @04:25PM
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Tell that to the homeless guy in SF who made it his life mission to push scooters into the bay. They even had to make a line item just for him.