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China's Bicycle sharing WENT INSANE!

serpentza · commentary · Watch on YouTube

Transit, cities & urban planningTech industry & business models

What it is

An expat YouTuber in China shows how dockless bike-sharing, once loved, has been flooded by competing companies. Bikes pile up, get abandoned in odd places and are vandalised, with footage from around the city.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN commenters point to it as a brief, accurate insider overview of what went wrong with oversupplied dockless bike sharing.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2017, last 2018

What HN commenters said

  1. “Well worth a watch.”

    Informative expat insider view of China's bike-sharing boom

    Baeocystin, 2017-09 · Recommendation · in “As Bike-Sharing Brings Out Bad Manners, China Asks, What’s Wrong with Us?”

  2. “Here's a video that summarizes the problem”

    Summarizes problems of oversupplied dockless bikes in China

    edaemon, 2018-01 · Recommendation · in “Uber Bike – A New Way to Commute or Explore”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: bike sharing, mobike, china, oversupply, urban transport

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