Application, yes (it's not a washing machine). Has to be linked to a payment card or paypal. You then scan a bike through the app click a box to approve payment and the bike unlocks.
So when you join up you give them your credit card details? And to use the bike you have to have your mobile telephone with you?
Application, yes (it's not a washing machine). Has to be linked to a payment card or paypal. You then scan a bike through the app click a box to approve payment and the bike unlocks.
So when you join up you give them your credit card details? And to use the bike you have to have your mobile telephone with you?
Yes and yes
What follows from that is can you tell which individual person has carelessly dumped a specific bike? If the bike has a tracker or whatever, and a unique number, then presumably the technology can easily identify the last user.
And hey presto the last user has lodged their payment details with the bike business. So the technology of identifying the user and their bank could be made available to the police and local authorities by the bike companies. Then an abandoned bike can be scanned, and a fine taken directly from the user to go to the authorities. Even with an accompanying photograph to prove the offence.
Application, yes (it's not a washing machine). Has to be linked to a payment card or paypal. You then scan a bike through the app click a box to approve payment and the bike unlocks.
So when you join up you give them your credit card details? And to use the bike you have to have your mobile telephone with you?
Yes and yes
What follows from that is can you tell which individual person has carelessly dumped a specific bike? If the bike has a tracker or whatever, and a unique number, then presumably the technology can easily identify the last user.
And hey presto the last user has lodged their payment details with the bike business. So the technology of identifying the user and their bank could be made available to the police and local authorities by the bike companies. Then an abandoned bike can be scanned, and a fine taken directly from the user to go to the authorities. Even with an accompanying photograph to prove the offence.
Yes and they don't let you park in certain places so you can't end the ride and/or you get fined. How effective it is, I don't know. Doesn't seem to be.
When you see someone ride past you and its clicking and beeping, it means it's not been paid for.
I thought they'd managed to stop that? Certainly don't hear that loud clicking that you used to a year or so ago.
I've seen a couple of kids 'bump start' the lime bikes. So I think there's a way around it, but it's not as easy as just starting to ride it.
I think the e-bikes have been a great addition to London, and I use them a few times a week. Unfortunately, as with most things, an inconsiderate few ruin it for everyone else with the damage and poor parking.
The e-bikes are a great idea but dumping them anywhere is not. Anybody figured out how they get charged if left randomly about and how a rider can tell if there is enough electricity inside the bicycle? And punctures?
This is becoming surreal. If a person picks up a green bike, rides it with clicking and bleeping, they can continue as long as they want. The clicking and bleeping acting as an audible signal to others, like the sounds made by reversing rubbish trucks.
A house fire, which led to the rescue of two people, may have been caused by lithium batteries in a converted e-bike.
London Fire Brigade (LFB) added firefighters used a ladder to help the adults escape the property in Sandy Hill Road, Woolwich, on Saturday morning.
Several other adults and a child were taken to hospital and treated for smoke inhalation.
LFB has now issued another warning about the risks of converted e-bikes, adding it had attended more than 130 fires this year that had involved an e-bike or e-scooter.
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If the bike has a tracker or whatever, and a unique number, then presumably the technology can easily identify the last user.
So the technology of identifying the user and their bank could be made available to the police and local authorities by the bike companies.
Then an abandoned bike can be scanned, and a fine taken directly from the user to go to the authorities. Even with an accompanying photograph to prove the offence.
I think the e-bikes have been a great addition to London, and I use them a few times a week. Unfortunately, as with most things, an inconsiderate few ruin it for everyone else with the damage and poor parking.
Anybody figured out how they get charged if left randomly about and how a rider can tell if there is enough electricity inside the bicycle?
And punctures?
A house fire, which led to the rescue of two people, may have been caused by lithium batteries in a converted e-bike.
London Fire Brigade (LFB) added firefighters used a ladder to help the adults escape the property in Sandy Hill Road, Woolwich, on Saturday morning.
Several other adults and a child were taken to hospital and treated for smoke inhalation.
LFB has now issued another warning about the risks of converted e-bikes, adding it had attended more than 130 fires this year that had involved an e-bike or e-scooter.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62mx3r8vvzo