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by jazzyjackson 2468 days ago
Also you want your scooters to work for the large portion of people who didn’t upgrade to a NFC enabled phone yet

QR codes are highly backwards compatible

Doesn’t preclude a NFC improvement, but my experience with Scan QR to Unlock has been very good, point the phone at the bike, bike unlocks, not much to improve

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besides the cost of installation. Printing a qr code << NFC reader. On a 200 dol e-scooter, that is not trivial economy