Unregulated bike share - park where you like

[Dewey]

Interesting article in the Guardian about unregulated bike share companies in China. The bikes have GPS chips/smartlocks to permit parking anywhere. Complaints about dump piles of these bikes have dampened initial enthusiasm - one commenter on the Guardian mentioned a joke circulating on Weibo is how reporting these dumped bikes is the new Pokemon Go. One of these companies Bluegogo is attempting to enter the US market in San Francisco to compete with Bay Area Bike Share.

[dasgeh]

There's an American firm - Spin - that's hiring a GM in Austin, TX...