Bird - Enjoy the ride - quick scooter hires for city commutes

Ask the 1000+ people who have been ticketed in Santa Monica & Venice in the past week.

Pros:

Easy to get around for cheap

Cons:

Illegal to ride most places and Bird doesn't inform you of what is legal and illegal.

I can't believe how much fun these things are!

Pros:

Simple, quick, fun transport for the "last mile" commute.

Cons:

Not fast enough! -jk 🚀 Would love to see more Birds around.

I was a very frequent Bird user before receiving a $190 ticket on Friday in Santa Monica for not wearing a helmet. It would be nice if Bird placed a reminder to wear a helmet anywhere besides the bottom of the scooter where you put your foot on thus rendering the information on wearing a helmet obstructed. No one here in Santa Monica has been riding these scooters with helmets. How do I know? Because there are hundreds of them riding all over Santa Monica and Venice all day. Now that users are starting to get $190 tickets Bird is sending free $20 helmets out instead of covering the cost of the users' tickets. Bird could have EASILY placed a dialog in the app to inform you that its illegal to operate a scooter without a helmet before unlocking the scooter, but that would've hurt their revenue since most people hop on these scooters unplanned and don't carry around a helmet. Bird would rather use dark patterns to get people to commit illegal acts than have a user click through to accept and acknowledge that you're either riding legally or illegally. Here's the "kicker" though, when I was pulled over the police officer informed me it was illegal to be operating the Bird WITH A HELMET on the street I was on despite the fact I was in a bike lane and not on the sidewalk. Operating a Bird on a street with a speed limit above 25 MPH is illegal. Bird didn't care to share this fact with its riders either. The city is suing Bird for operating illegally. I plan on fighting my ticket in court and no longer use Bird because I feel tricked into having broken a law I knew nothing about.

London, when?

Sounds pretty nice)

Used it this past weekend in Venice and Santa Monica. It was a blast!

Scooters look fun. Fascinating concept to crowd sourcing charging overnight. Interested to see how it works.

They just launched in Austin and I'm already in love with this service. I just wish I had more control over where they reset the scooters.

I think this has multiple purposes. For elders in the group who can’t keep up with the group an excellent way for them to enjoy the city view

Pros:

Small, compact, can get between cars & people well

Cons:

no at to carry your items

how does it compares in price, performance and built compares to the Xiaomi Mi Electric that uses the same LG’s lithium cells that Tesla uses and has a range of 30 km, 98,425.197 feet or 18.5 miles between charges?