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micromobility - Ebikes, scooters, longboards: Whatever floats your goat, this is micromobility
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Ebikes, bicycles, scooters, skateboards, longboards, eboards, motorcycles, skates, unicycles: Whatever floats your goat, this is all things micromobility!
"Transportation using lightweight vehicles such as bicycles or scooters, especially electric ones that may be borrowed as part of a self-service rental program in which people rent vehicles for short-term use within a town or city.
micromobility is seen as a potential solution to moving people more efficiently around cities"
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The article says the founders are trying to restart it, so they're probably not going to give up that IP to sell to an investor.
Even still, what's the timeline for a company trying to restart itself before the better move is to open it up? Should there be some timeline like 6-12 months of being defunct before whoever owns it is compelled to make it open? They're going to lost a bunch of momentum being shut down anyways, so maybe it's better for them to make it open so that their community sticks around while they figure out how to get back in business?
That said, even if it's opened up, it still might not fit in with the ecosystem of normal bicycle parts and therefore be mostly worthless/only relevant for an enthusiast. I doubt that whatever features they've got are that much better than what the cycling community can come up with in an open standardized way in the next couple years anyways.
Whatever happens, it kinda sucks for the people who bought into the proprietary system, but I hope they will have learned their lesson and know better for next time :)
I'd figure if they open sourced it, that'd only help them with bringing it back: Current customers would definitely view that favorably, as would anybody who happens to be paying attention. They could use some positive PR, especially right now.