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by skellera 2465 days ago
Well let’s be realistic, it said nearby scooters. Not “unlock scooters.”

There is the completely valid use case of a scooter that isn’t able to send it’s location to the app yet is close by to you. So it can be found with Bluetooth.

That isn’t to say that the app is isn’t tracking where you go, it doesn’t need the Bluetooth connection to its scooters because you need to turn GPS on to find the scooters.

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The app forsure is tracking where you go. There are some areas that are “slow zones” where the scooter won’t go past a certain mph and is throttled. This is done in real time.