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		foolinaround on May 28, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Uber is destroying thousands of electric bikes and... they should have shipped them to countries where the liability laws are not stringent, get them into the hands of kids who could tinker with them...

sitkack on May 28, 2020 [–]

Could you imagine all the skills and the secondary economy having 10k of these bikes dropped on a 2nd world city?

These things would rock Kathmandu.

renewiltord on May 28, 2020 | [–]

Yeah, someone would accidentally puncture a battery and it'll burn them and then the headlines will say "Uber is dumping exploding bikes on Third World people".

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