10-12-2018, 05:58 PM
I used them again twice yesterday:
The car was at Cambridge Hyundai so I used the 200 iXpress to get from there to work near R&T Park. Normally I'd hop off at either Albert McCormick or Hagey / Wes Graham and walk to work (six of one, half dozen of the other) but I saw two scooters at the Hagey / Columbia iXpress stop so jumped out there. I scootered to the R&T Park ION station to both cut down on my walk to Phillip St, and because it was fun!
At lunch I did a pure joy ride from R&T Park station to the Perimeter institute and back. (I might be an addict.)
During my second ride on the first day Lime thought that I strayed out of the pilot zone while traversing the R&T Park station platform, I suspect the GPS signal was degraded by the canopy. In addition to a warning popping up on my phone, the scooter had only limited power until I cleared the platform. That's in line with what was stated in the The Record article:
"The scooters can travel up to 24 km/h, and employ geofencing and slowdown mechanisms to keep them operating within the dedicated area between 7 a.m. and 9 p.m."
Oddly enough it was only on the first of my four rides where the app tracked a route that it could show me at the end. The other three are all just listed as "0 ft - X mins" with no trip plot. I don't know if it's the app or the scooter itself that enforces the geofence. Ideally the scooter would do all the real-time GPS stuff and then report my route to their servers, but I don't think that's how it works because that first ride was a huge battery suck on my phone but I don't recall crazy battery usage on the other rides which didn't track. Again, buggy Android app!
@tvot's ride was uphill. That was obvious during my out-and-back ride to the Perimeter Institute yesterday, as it was much faster getting there than coming back! Even though we're only talking tiny percentage level railroad grades, it seems to make a huge difference to those little scooters when you're my size.
It's weirder than that. According to my banking app Lime charged me $1.50, then $2.10, then $26.79 all on the same day. Right now the app shows a balance of $16.37, but with rides of 6, 4, 4, and 19 minutes my balance should be $16.49. They owe me $0.12.
The car was at Cambridge Hyundai so I used the 200 iXpress to get from there to work near R&T Park. Normally I'd hop off at either Albert McCormick or Hagey / Wes Graham and walk to work (six of one, half dozen of the other) but I saw two scooters at the Hagey / Columbia iXpress stop so jumped out there. I scootered to the R&T Park ION station to both cut down on my walk to Phillip St, and because it was fun!
At lunch I did a pure joy ride from R&T Park station to the Perimeter institute and back. (I might be an addict.)
(10-11-2018, 10:36 PM)tvot Wrote: I didn't see anyone using them on my walk through the park tonight but the last few nights I've seen a few, even on Father David Bauer coming from Westmount by the ball diamonds -- so like others I see no evidence of geo-fencing.
During my second ride on the first day Lime thought that I strayed out of the pilot zone while traversing the R&T Park station platform, I suspect the GPS signal was degraded by the canopy. In addition to a warning popping up on my phone, the scooter had only limited power until I cleared the platform. That's in line with what was stated in the The Record article:
"The scooters can travel up to 24 km/h, and employ geofencing and slowdown mechanisms to keep them operating within the dedicated area between 7 a.m. and 9 p.m."
Oddly enough it was only on the first of my four rides where the app tracked a route that it could show me at the end. The other three are all just listed as "0 ft - X mins" with no trip plot. I don't know if it's the app or the scooter itself that enforces the geofence. Ideally the scooter would do all the real-time GPS stuff and then report my route to their servers, but I don't think that's how it works because that first ride was a huge battery suck on my phone but I don't recall crazy battery usage on the other rides which didn't track. Again, buggy Android app!
(10-12-2018, 12:15 PM)tomh009 Wrote: 33% time savings over walking isn't really huge.
@tvot's ride was uphill. That was obvious during my out-and-back ride to the Perimeter Institute yesterday, as it was much faster getting there than coming back! Even though we're only talking tiny percentage level railroad grades, it seems to make a huge difference to those little scooters when you're my size.
(10-11-2018, 03:19 PM)Canard Wrote: Whoah, haha, what?
I literally touched my thumb to my reader and ApplePay took care of the rest, it was like $1.85.
You guys all had to pay $20?!
It's weirder than that. According to my banking app Lime charged me $1.50, then $2.10, then $26.79 all on the same day. Right now the app shows a balance of $16.37, but with rides of 6, 4, 4, and 19 minutes my balance should be $16.49. They owe me $0.12.
...K