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Install 360° cameras, film those assholes and make them pay for retrieval.
The problem is it's done by folk that don't pay and probably covering their face. The fact the company thinks it's cheaper to lose bikes than pay rent for land for stations to secure the bikes between customers is the problem. They don't care.
The modern bikes need an account with valid fiscal info to unlock. There is no way to "not pay".
Yeah there is, they can be bump started really easily, you literally just lift the rear wheel then start moving forward, then put the wheel back down and jump on, I've seen kids do it, it takes zero skill. In the meadows these days I hear a lime alarm pretty much every day.
This is a problem that's already been solved, check out bicing in Barcelona and how that works. This really is a problem of legislation.
There absolutely is, people break the disabling mechanism. I've had two go past me today with the obvious clack-clack-clack-clack of it.
...or have decent security on them that can't be broken by a 12yo.
So constant 360° surveillance?
You only need to save the recording when the bike's accelerometer detects the bike being thrown.
Sounds nice until you think about the implications for everyone that doesn't vandalize or destroy these bikes. I'm most certainly not going to rent one if it has 360° surveillance capabilities.
The recording nedds to be saved only when the accelerometer detects the bike being thrown.
Yes totally. I would trust any company to always do this the right way. And there would never be an incident where some footage gets leaked, or passed around the office. "Oops there must have been a malfunction".
Yes like Amazon AND Google haven't been caught saving private conversations that their voice assistants recorded totally unintentionally even though they weren't triggered. They did totally say "sorry" and won't do it again, ever. Right? Right?
Sure, if you live in a shithole country like the US or a wanna-be-shithile country like the UK, companies can just trample you privacy. But in the EU, privacy is protected and you can easily introduce legislation that any non-government surveillance needs to be set up in a way that makes automatic permanent surveillance impossible.
Sounds like a lot of technology on something that can and will be trashed by the public.