Nexxxeh 6 hours ago

This feels really scummy in the "this is why we can't have nice things" sense.

A system put in place to incentivise helping people, abused by a few to inconvenience customers for pocket change.

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  • snypher 6 hours ago

    It's not really fair to say $6k a month is pocket change. I agree with one of the quotes that if they want some different behavior, they should incentivise something different.

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    • DangitBobby 2 hours ago

      As we all know, if it's a company, it's not a scam and there's no such thing as victim blaming. Instead, it's "perverse incentives".

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  • DangitBobby 2 hours ago

    Yeah. My favorite part:

    “How are we cheating?” said one Angel in a baggy gray T-shirt, black athletic shorts and sneakers, who declined to give his name. “If Lyft wants something else, they can change the algorithm.”

    I don't think anyone would buy that he doesn't know it's cheating, but that won't stop him from attempting to rationalize his behavior because he likes the money.

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kiloshib 5 hours ago

Washington, DC has a similar program [1]. I believe Capital Bikeshare is also maintained by Lyft in some way. I wonder if this one is harder to abuse or if it's just that NYC has a larger pop than DC so there is a larger pool of bikes to collect?

[1] https://capitalbikeshare.com/bike-angels/rewards

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zoobab 10 hours ago

Old stuff, bike renting companies were proposing that in Brussels years ago, before doing that will their own employees. I guess the scheme has been abused.

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dyauspitr 39 minutes ago

Is there anything portable you can get that you can just slap on a bike and have it move electrically? Maybe some small battery+motor that can clamp directly to one of the gears or something?

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