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Should all companies expand to the whole globe? There are plenty of well-off places with mild climate where using a scooter all year around is feasible.
by dottedmag 3y ago
Should all companies expand to the whole globe?
There are plenty of well-off places with mild climate where using a scooter all year around is feasible.
- solarkraft 3y agoNo - and renting out scooters is a model that can totally work. But do micro mobility companies have the scaling potential/dynamic of a Google or Facebook (which would justify the way they raise money)?
- palemoonale 3y agoWhat's this thing with prefixing 'micro'? Either you provide mobility, or you don't. Same with services.
- DFHippie 3y agoSpeaking only for "micro mobility", it seems useful to distinguish allowing someone to travel within a city from between cities from between continents. Sure, it's mobility, but there are different kinds or degrees of mobility.
- kjellsbells 3y agoAgree, it seems to assume that the unit of mobility is something larger, like a car. When the fundamental unit of human mobility is just that, a human, since they are inherently mobile. We would do better to describe cars as macro mobility than scooters and bikes as micro. Pipe dream, I know.
- PaulHoule 3y agoA friend of mine pointed out that almost all (upward of 90%) of the world’s population lives in a milder climate than Upstate NY.