A battle is underway between scooter companies in San Diego and a company that has started impounding scooters left on private property. Could impound be a way to make sure scooters don't litter the streets and driveways?
An interesting fight is taking place in San Diego between scooter companies like Lime and Bird, and a"repo man" who has. He impounds the scooters, then charges the companies a surprisingly reasonable $30 plus $2/day to get them back.
Tow and impound is an ancient solution to improper parking for a long time, though it's naturally much hated by those towed. The"Scootscoop" team claim they are only removing scooters from private property under arrangement with the property owners. Bird has sued them and accused them of"ransoming" scooters.
The big problem is the potential for fraud and malice of several sorts. The difficulty is that a scooter can be moved after it is parked, from a proper location to an illegal one. Or somebody can claim that a scooter was moved. Unfortunately, GPS is not accurate enough to guide customers to proper parking spaces, which will often be just a few feet from improper ones. So training customers to park well could be a very difficult challenge. If there were a camera in the scooters one can imagine a more advanced robot localization tool which figured the exact position and helped better, but that's a big add-on for the scooter makers.
Options could include promising to remove it by some deadline, paying the property owner/resident to accept it or move it, or accepting the risk of impound. Impound companies could charge a standard fee for recovery and storage, but would always be free to negotiate a lower fee, or a fee that includes recharging and positioning.
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