Uber/Lyft as one-stop shopping for all modes
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I'm not against it, but I live in reality and realize it's not a viable option to LCF. I't only viable to a certain geographic region of this country...Where it's warm weather year round and where work is a short commute.
Car Free / Car Lite boom has come and gone...
https://medium.com/@sjpeterson/livin...a-4df3e13a8b75
Car Free / Car Lite boom has come and gone...
https://medium.com/@sjpeterson/livin...a-4df3e13a8b75
Is it doable and pleasant? No. Riding a bicycle requires real sacrifices. I ride to get to and from work and for pleasure but it isn't my major source of transportation, especially when I'm feeling lazy and don't want to go up hills.
Instead, I ride my Gotway MSuper V3S+, an extremely large electric unicycle. It doesn't require much sacrifice and tops out at about 30 mph. You'll pass most urban traffic with it. My moving average is around 26 mph.
I do see electric bicycles and unicycles taking over bicycles; certainly most new bikes sold in Western Europe are electric.
I try to treat my car as, "emergency use only".
I don't like owning nor using a car. I have very often looked into what it would take to be entirely car free; it requires moving away from the United States which is now my plan.
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To the surprise of absolutely no one, gmail is not private (even says so in the end user agreement). I posted google's rebuttal to give both sides a fair shake.
https://www.zdnet.com/google-amp/art...-apps-that-do/
While I do have a gmail account, I treat it as absolutely public information. I strongly urge others to do the same.
https://www.zdnet.com/google-amp/art...-apps-that-do/
While I do have a gmail account, I treat it as absolutely public information. I strongly urge others to do the same.
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I'm not against it, but I live in reality and realize it's not a viable option to LCF. I't only viable to a certain geographic region of this country...Where it's warm weather year round and where work is a short commute.
Car Free / Car Lite boom has come and gone...
https://medium.com/@sjpeterson/livin...a-4df3e13a8b75
Car Free / Car Lite boom has come and gone...
https://medium.com/@sjpeterson/livin...a-4df3e13a8b75
In reality, unfunded LCF has deeper roots and longer staying power than the people who try it out because it is being promoted as a trend before moving on to the next trend. What amazes me is how the economy manages to keep all those trend-followers funded to buy cars or whatever is trending. They must have a massive money-distribution system, maybe even 'too big to fail.'
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It's not so much that I have something to hide, it's just that I don't want you to see what I do.
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I think the problem of privacy is oversimplified. It can be used to your benefit and/or detriment depending on who is using your data for what purpose. E.g. if a bike-sharing app is using location data to plan where to have bikes available so people are generally satisfied with the bike selection wherever they are, that's good; but if they do the opposite in order to cause people to take a ride-share instead, i.e. because it makes more money for them, then it's dubious that they would use information for that (exploitative) purpose.
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So far the only thing some of the bike/scooter sharing endeavors have been "effective" at is raising venture capital to burn up in money losing operations.
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Android is the smartphone operating system built by Google. Android is free to use and modify by all users and developers.
Or sorta free...hmm. Can you think of a cost associated with picking up a free snake in your lawn?
I see easily accessible private information used for nefarious purposes, as massive security breaches by many (most?) major corporations storing your data (not always originating from your phone) costing consumers a pretty penny.
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Uber is dangerous, as they hid a massive data breach for months AND paid of the thieves that shook them down. Where did they get that information? That's right; from your phone.
Android is the smartphone operating system built by Google. Android is free to use and modify by all users and developers.
Or sorta free...hmm. Can you think of a cost associated with picking up a free snake in your lawn?
I see easily accessible private information used for nefarious purposes, as massive security breaches by many (most?) major corporations storing your data (not always originating from your phone) costing consumers a pretty penny.
Android is the smartphone operating system built by Google. Android is free to use and modify by all users and developers.
Or sorta free...hmm. Can you think of a cost associated with picking up a free snake in your lawn?
I see easily accessible private information used for nefarious purposes, as massive security breaches by many (most?) major corporations storing your data (not always originating from your phone) costing consumers a pretty penny.
Anyway, the point is that it is possible to go around gathering data about people and feeding into networks to be sold and bought and used for various purposes. The question is whether we're going to have a world like Orwell's 1984 where people are using information to exploit and control others, or will people commit to stewarding data ethically and respect others' privacy and liberty? Probably both, and then the question will be what balance between privacy and enforcement/retaliation to use to police and deter those who abuse information for exploitation.
Either way, I don't think ride-sharing and autonomous vehicles are going to facilitate any more abuse than private passenger vehicles do. In fact, I think one of the reasons people are resisting ride-sharing and autonomous vehicles is precisely because they undermine the traditional form of public id used to survey and control public space, i.e. license tags. As long as you have vehicles registered along with driver's licenses, you can track anyone by tracking their license tag. LCF undermines that surveillance tradition, so people are concerned the same levels of security won't be possible without everyone owning and registering their own car, along with themselves as licensed drivers.
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I live car light. I mean, really car light; it took me two months to go through half a tank of gas while putting on over 600 miles on my commuter bicycle over the same period of time.
Is it doable and pleasant? No. Riding a bicycle requires real sacrifices. I ride to get to and from work and for pleasure but it isn't my major source of transportation, especially when I'm feeling lazy and don't want to go up hills.
Instead, I ride my Gotway MSuper V3S+, an extremely large electric unicycle. It doesn't require much sacrifice and tops out at about 30 mph. You'll pass most urban traffic with it. My moving average is around 26 mph.
I do see electric bicycles and unicycles taking over bicycles; certainly most new bikes sold in Western Europe are electric.
I try to treat my car as, "emergency use only".
I don't like owning nor using a car. I have very often looked into what it would take to be entirely car free; it requires moving away from the United States which is now my plan.
Is it doable and pleasant? No. Riding a bicycle requires real sacrifices. I ride to get to and from work and for pleasure but it isn't my major source of transportation, especially when I'm feeling lazy and don't want to go up hills.
Instead, I ride my Gotway MSuper V3S+, an extremely large electric unicycle. It doesn't require much sacrifice and tops out at about 30 mph. You'll pass most urban traffic with it. My moving average is around 26 mph.
I do see electric bicycles and unicycles taking over bicycles; certainly most new bikes sold in Western Europe are electric.
I try to treat my car as, "emergency use only".
I don't like owning nor using a car. I have very often looked into what it would take to be entirely car free; it requires moving away from the United States which is now my plan.
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Can anyone operate bike sharing operations "effectively"? To be specific, actually run a city wide bike sharing operation profitably without government subsidies and/or corporate sugar daddy benevolence.
So far the only thing some of the bike/scooter sharing endeavors have been "effective" at is raising venture capital to burn up in money losing operations.
So far the only thing some of the bike/scooter sharing endeavors have been "effective" at is raising venture capital to burn up in money losing operations.
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Not really, unless you consider "profitable" just being able to function/exist as long as the charity handouts/donations keep coming, and hoping the operation doesn't fold up when/if the benefactor tires of it.
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If a 'benefactor' would 'tire of' funding a bike share, it could be organized to run on user fees. It's just a question of divvying up the cost of buying the bikes and maintaining them. As long as no one is conspiring to run them out of business with vandalism, etc. it should be possible for users to maintain the system, assuming no one gets involved and drives up costs somehow.
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When a corporation funds a bike share it is not charity.
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