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I fail to see the problem with this. It is their property you are renting, and they are telling you to not fuck with it too much. Looks very reasonable to me. And all of those can be detected without any violation of privacy too.
IMO it kind of depends on whether their 'riding violation' detection system is overly sensitive, this could be a reasonable response or absolute bullshit depending on what the scooter pilot actually did.
Yeah this. It's reasonable if the companies are and the system is.
But for instance Ryde scooters in my city had most of their brakes set pretty friggin tight, so that pretty much any application of the rear bake lead to skidding.
I know kids do it on purpose, and I did enjoy skidding a corner or two, but tried doing it minimally. Couldn't help myself though, especially because 50% at least were just useful accidents.
But my point is that if the rear brake wasn't as tight, I wouldn't have skidded at all.
Agreed, but
just seems wrong. They know your payment info, your habits, the places you visit, the routes you take, and exactly how you're using the scooter. Not to mention whatever the app might be doing in background. Their only way to violate privacy even more would be by filming the driver and the surroundings and selling all the data
Yeah, fair enough not wanting people to take their equipment to a skate park or otherwise abuse it.
People on this platform have some bizarre opinions sometimes.
For real. Like, they aren't even giving you a fine. This is a polite warning to not do dumb shit on an expensive e-scooter. Beyond not wanting the things damaged, they probably also don't want customers losing control and concussing themselves. Scooters are absurdly easy to crash as is.
This post is stupid.
Agreed with all of your comment but wanted to discuss this. A vehicle you are unfamiliar with is easy to crash and a rented scooter can have weird weight distribution. Still, like with a rented car it comes down to how reckless you are being as a driver. We (and I include myself in this group) tend to generally be a lot more comfortable being reckless on bikes and scooters than in cars in part because the potential damage from a bike crash is trivial compared to the potential damage from a car crash. So like, it's likely not a simple, black and white single variable issue like "how bad a driver are they" in their database
I left a portion of my face on the sidewalk in Austin TX from one of these scooters. My drunk ass sure didn’t respect the danger these pose.
Oof. I hope your face grew back, I like your face.
Thanks, my face appreciates you. It grew back, with some scars that are hard to notice unless you’re looking for them. First and only time I got to ride in an ambulance (so far).
My erstwhile manager told me that he once fell off a scooter and broke his leg very badly. According to him, the ER doctor said the only other time he'd seen that type and severity of breakage was when someone was parachuting, messed it up, and hit a tree.
I don't understand how jumping curbs is supposed to be a problem, that's just something you have to do to get around sometimes. It also seems like something that hitting potholes would easily get confused for.
You can get around without having to jump curbs, and potholes are also avoidable.
Scooters are supposed to be on the street. There is no need to jump any curbs.
Where I'm from there's still a plenty of combined pedestrian/bike paths that have an annoyingly high curb after every crosswalk.
I'll say again. Scooters are supposed to be on the street. Not on bike paths or sidewalks.
Well you'd be wrong. The law says they belong on bike paths here, and a lot of the time sidewalks are combined paths where bikes are supposed to go.
No no no, you missed the part where it says “lemmy.world” after their name, so their perspective is always correct. Read the Fediverse manual.
And where is that?
Finland, but it's the same in all of the EU. Scooters are legally the same as bikes.
Just like in Canada. I would suspect most of the world as well.
Yeah, I ride a bike a lot and escooters usually are treated the same as far as road laws go where they are allowed. Can't think of when I have had to jump a kerb.