Chronicon

selling the spare tyre as a $1250 add-on which takes up half the truck bed and has been out of stock for weeks:

how did I not hear about this one

damn I was about to post this. Shame it didn't get traction/comments here, though I suppose we all know the broad strokes

tfw no London or Paris People's Square

yeah last I saw deluge had not been getting a lot of updates but its still my preferred as well

we used to have that. don't want to dox myself but lets just say the rental scooter/bike mafia won out over the publicly funded system, and not by being nicer or cheaper.

I miss it so much

my brother got one of the one-wheel things (set up more like a skateboard than a unicycle) and hoooo boy did he get hurt after a few months. They were perfectly designed to lure you into a false confidence and then fail when you leaned in too hard. He sold it after that accident and they were recalled a while later. The unicycle things are neat but it does kinda scare me how fast they go. Only seen a couple people being assholes on them though so let the thrill seekers do what they want I guess

I think a lot of it is not well thought out. But on the other hand if we wanted these things to be good for the environment this isn't how we'd go about it. They're there to make money for the company, thats it, and some of them even fail at that. They're often more or comparably expensive to getting a "rideshare" in a car from a driver, which is insane.

I'm all about scooters and ebikes, they're no silver bullet but they're a hell of a lot better than electric cars... but there are a lot of companies doing their damndest to make the problems with them worse not better. At least they mostly seem to have swappable batteries now, and seem to be built a little sturdier. The companies that tried to do this with consumer grade scooters were throwing them out like every 30 goddamn days.

the people are probably doing it because of the other negative externalities of the scooters, not just cause its fun to throw heavy shit in the river

Actually, there are also bikes you can use with an app but curiously you don't see kids doing reckless shit with those,

I did watch two guys attempting to stunt on the big rental ebikes from one of these companies and they clipped eachother at speed and both ate shit like 5 feet in front of me lol. But they were older and also not in traffic, they were in a park

I am jealous of cities that have good bikeshare programs that don't rely on leaving ewaste all over town

oh it was absolutely always fake. They wanted to replace taxis from the very beginning (although they started out with luxury black cars that weren't particularly price competitive)

highly highly recommend studded tires if you ever feel like giving winter biking a go again. you can ride on sheer ice with solid traction, its crazy. I've never fallen with them, though deep snow could probably mess you up if you're not careful

But taking the bus is also pretty dank. beats a car any day

iirc that was the pitch, very very very early on. The reason they could just operate an unlicensed cab was because it was just random people freely choosing to share their ride (for gas money)