John UM
According to foreign media reports, California has always been at the forefront of technology, sharing the American form of bicycles, and sharing electric scooters is naturally popular here. However, the shared electric scooters of many American companies can’t hide the fate of being destroyed.
Merritt Lake, located in the eastern part of Oakland, California, is the first official wildlife sanctuary in the United States. For more than 100 years, it has been a paradise for birds. But this is a past tense. Today, it is the collective cemetery of electric scooters. In October alone, according to the Merritt Lake Institute, local sanitation workers have recovered more than 60 electric shared scooters from the lake, from the super hot Bird and Lime to the lesser-known Scoot and Wind. It is called the underwater expo of the Silicon Valley shared electric scooter, so that the Merritt Lake Institute is calling for a crisis and will have its life
They will sleep in the bottom of the water.
From the Merritt Lake in Auckland City, to the Pacific Ocean in Los Angeles, and even in the Potskan River in Washington State, even the rippled canals in Indianapolis in the middle of the city have found abandoned electric skateboards. The car, in the San Francisco Bay Area, the sea waves, the waves beat the electric scooter, and even became a scene that people are used to
Flooding is just one of many tortures. The outsourced maintenance staff at Bird and Lime told the media that the most common way to break is to cut off the scooter’s power cord and smash the brakes. Bird refused to disclose the number of scooters they sold to the market and the damage rate; Lime disclosed that their scooter damage rate was only about 1%
In Portland, Oregon, local citizens can no longer stand the scooter and launch a campaign against shared scooters, and built a special one for it, called Willamette River. “Electric scooters”, they tried to figure out how many electric scooters were thrown into their mother river. However, the data on the website seems to have not been updated for a while
The manager of this website said to the media:
“Why did you build this website? For environmental protection, the reason is so simple and straightforward, the Willamette River is already overwhelmed. If you add the poisonous substances in the electric scooter battery, the river will be completely finished. !!
“The manager of the electric scooter in Willamette River” also opened an account @pdxscootermess in INS, which is intended to expose the chaos that electric scooters bring to this small town, hundreds of pictures let People are extremely disappointed
However, the full version of the death log of the American scooter is stored in an account on the INS called @birdgraveyard, which records a series of murders for electric scooters, which is called the scooter’s bulletin board. The signature is also full of gunpowder:
“If you find any Bird, Lime scooter hangs, please send us the photos and they deserve it.”
Where does anger come from?
Some people don’t go out without scooters, while others hate this kind of transportation. Opposition and anger come mainly from two aspects:
The first is the interference with the public order. This is the same problem as the shared bicycle. The electric scooter also has the problem of chaos and arbitrage. It not only blocks the crosswalk, especially the blind road, but also encroaches on many public green spaces..
On the other hand, electric scooters have also caused many traffic accidents. This is mainly due to unclear road rights. The sidewalks, automatic lanes and even motor vehicles can all see the scooter passing by scooters. These scooters The fastest speed is up to 50 kilometers
Vox’s polls for ten cities show that San Francisco people are the most annoying electric scooters, and nearly half of them criticize this new type of transportation. The Atlanta residents in the south are the most loved, and nearly 80% of the respondents support electric scooters
The broken window effect of car abuse has been formed
Duke University Psychology Professor Dan Ariely analyzes: Why are so many people having no moral sense in destroying scooters? People may feel guilty when they destroy personal property, such as you smash a car The window glass of Uber cars, the driver owners will suffer losses, and these scooters do not belong to an individual, but belong to the company
Especially when these scooters make the city a mess, the damage has become an extreme way of protection. Unlike burning a bus or hijacking an airplane, deliberate destruction of a shared scooter is not condemned, but rather more like a pioneering act worthy of praise
The electric scooter that is close to Bird is priced at around $1,000. According to US law, the destruction of property worth more than $400 can locate a felony. However, the Los Angeles Police Department has only received one report so far, but it has been rejected because the prosecutor refused to file a case. The police department is also blind to this, after all, saving people is more important than saving the car
冤冤 When is the report?
The wave of protests has already impacted the valuation of Bird and Lime
According to the Wall Street Journal, Bird received $400 million in financing from Sequoia Capital in June this year, when it was valued at $2 billion, doubled from the beginning of the year. But in the latest round of financing in December, it is still $2 billion, rather than the $4 billion expected
Lime has delineated some parking areas in the app, with a focus on some waterfront areas where users cannot terminate their trips. Bird said that he would impose penalties on users who were maliciously or illegally used, such as thrown into the water
With the GPS positioning technology, the operations managers of Bird and Lime can clearly know where the life of these scooters ends. The local government has already asked the relevant companies to talk, and the agreement reached is that the company agreed to salvage them ashore 24 hours after being told
Despite this, Bird and Lime, which were established less than two years ago, are still in a period of rapid expansion. They are still adding orders to the factory to send more electric scooters to the streets to meet people’s electric skateboards. Car enthusiasm
In Silicon Valley, if you don’t step on an electric scooter to work, it’s not a qualified geek. Many young people also feel that scooters are not only environmentally friendly but also affordable: unlocking $1 and riding 15 cents per minute – a price that most Americans can afford
Bird is particularly stubborn. Bird founder Travis VanderZanden said:
Only when there are as many scooters as there are cars on the road, he is satisfied
The car abusers also have no intention of stopping, just as they are hostile to capital