I reject the premise and instead ask why would someone throw them in the water? The answer to that question is something that needs to be socially addressed, the bikes don't need to justify themselves.
"The public can't have nice things because the plebs will just mindlessly destroy them." - boomer brainworms
Adding to that, the numbers look much worse when you have a society with no expectation of trust, then you add one thing that requires trust. Everyone who was going to wake up that day and decide to senselessly destroy public property is going to destroy that one thing you've installed.
You can only do so much damage before you get caught and punished.
Why don't people do this to library books?
What exactly is stopping some anti-social boomer or teenager from chucking them all into the water?
I reject the premise and instead ask why would someone throw them in the water? The answer to that question is something that needs to be socially addressed, the bikes don't need to justify themselves.
"The public can't have nice things because the plebs will just mindlessly destroy them." - boomer brainworms
Adding to that, the numbers look much worse when you have a society with no expectation of trust, then you add one thing that requires trust. Everyone who was going to wake up that day and decide to senselessly destroy public property is going to destroy that one thing you've installed.
You can only do so much damage before you get caught and punished. Why don't people do this to library books?
They're locked into the chargers and can't be released without a mobile app.
Nothing, my college town had these and that's exactly what happened to them.
These things are usually pretty fucking heavy in my experience. That would be an ok deterrent.
We did that in my town when they put the rent-a-scooters up