EScooter pilot program discontinued less than a year after launch in Eugene. Gee – I wonder why ‘financial reasons’ were behind discontinuing the program? I’d be willin’ to bet that losing track of their scooters had somethin’ to do with it. I mean, cone on. Anybody that’s driven around town in the last year couldn’t’ve missed seeing the puke-green scooters abandoned next to sidewalks, leaned up against signposts – wherever the battery ran out. Given the users’ habit of walking away from them when the battery charge was depleted, the only way such a program would have a chance (moneywise) would be to embed a tracking device into each scooter (that ran on a battery reserve unavailable to the drive motor) and pay an employee to navigate to that location and retrieve it. Kinda like the guy I ran into a while back, putting some abandoned shopping carts into his pickup. One of the area’s grocery stores paid him a bounty for each of their carts he found and returned.
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