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by Gys 2381 days ago
Nice one. But I was a little confused: this is 'only' about Circ? Did you consider to investigate the other companies as well? Seems there are at least four more ;-) To really say something about 'scooters in Lisbon' and 'compare with other cities' more data is needed.

One could think the hardest part of starting a new scooter company these days is finding a differentiating color...
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clan 2381 days ago
From the article:

Note: I was also trying to retrieve similar information for Lime scooters. However, the Lime API does not return a unique Scooter ID. For every request the returned scooter IDs are randomized (and internally they map them to their real IDs), which makes it impossible to track individual scooters.

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netsharc 2381 days ago
One could also try the data of car sharers with floating fleets ("leave the car legally parked anywhere within their business area") like car2go.

Incidentally, in comparison with car sharing, I hate these scooters. With cars you have to park them legally or the you (the last renter) will have to pay the potential parking ticket. With scooters, people can easily lift and move them, so the last renter has plausible deniability if they parked idiotically. End result? They're all parked fucking idiotically.

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