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0 pointsstingrae7y ago0 comments

Out of curiosity, what is your issue with skip/scoot? All the services seems to be similar to me?

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I haven't tried 'em in a bit, so to be fair, maybe it's better now.

But last time I tried:

Scooter coverage was too sparse to be useful.

If you did try to chase down one of the sparsely scattered scooters, usually it would be missing. No way to make it play a sound to help locate it, no way to report it was missing.

Gave up and just kept skating everywhere. Whereas I found Lime and Bird to be a practical alternative mode of transport, before they got kicked out.

stingraeOP7y ago

That sounds like a different issue. SF limited the number of scooters each company, Skip/Scoot, could deploy. When Bird and Lime launched in the city they had no limits, so they flooded it with scooters.

dilap7y ago

Good point.

the_clarence7y ago

Require a driver license.

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dilap7y ago

I haven't tried 'em in a bit, so to be fair, maybe it's better now.

But last time I tried:

Scooter coverage was too sparse to be useful.

If you did try to chase down one of the sparsely scattered scooters, usually it would be missing. No way to make it play a sound to help locate it, no way to report it was missing.

Gave up and just kept skating everywhere. Whereas I found Lime and Bird to be a practical alternative mode of transport, before they got kicked out.

stingraeOP7y ago

dilap7y ago

Good point.

the_clarence7y ago

Require a driver license.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse