E-scooter company Unicorn goes bust

[SlowPokePete]

Originally Posted by redir

I was flying around the corner on a bike trail a few weeks back and one was laying right across the trail.

Into the woods it would go.

SPP

[BobbyJones]

Originally Posted by Mr. Pink

Adam Neumann just walked away from the WeWork debacle with well over a billion dollars in the bank and no jail time. That will be the new benchmark for Unicorn scams. Who cares about operations and profit/loss when you can pull that off.

OT - Curious about your thoughts about the "jail time" comment? Why would / should jail time even be part of the conversation?

[Red Tornado]

Originally Posted by Mr. Pink

I think this whole e-scooter thing has seen its fifteen minutes. I was just in Italy for a month, and did not see one, but, a year ago, they were all over the place in Spain. Maybe members here could chime in in their sightings.

If I had to put my money down, I'd say e-bikes, especially fairly rugged all purpose bikes, are the future, along with small Vespa like e-scooters. Bike sharing seems to have seen it's time, too.

I agree with this.

Also, last summer the wife & I were in San Antonio. Those flippin scooters were everywhere and I lost count of the near misses I witnessed them having with pedestrians, bikes and cars.

[Hellgate]

Austin is swimming in them. They can't go away soon enough.

[cmg]

the scooters are still here in SA. The tourist love them. City council has put more restrictions. i don't believe Bird made the cut but there's plenty of companies that want to join the fun.