Raspberry pi 4 inside abandoned scooters

So that's where all the damn Pi4s went.

This is such a terrible application. These things would drain their battery just running the pi and electronics. Why such a high power platform for such basic functionality?

This screams of free money flooding startups. Amateur hour.

Oh so that's why you can't buy them anymore, people are using them as microcontrollers.

Wait, a company can just decide to abandon hundreds of their hardware in the middle the streets?

It's not abandoned property unless the finder doesn't know who it belongs to.

If the name of the company is on the scooter, it is mislaid property, not abandoned property.

The classic bar exam question on this involves the finder of a bag of money. In one hypothetical, it's a plain canvas bag. In another, it has the name of a bank on the bag.

When the name is there, you have to give it back. The finder only gets to keep it if after legal notice and a waiting period, the owner fails to reclaim it. In most states there is a statute on this, and most of them require turning the property over to police temporarily.

So are rentals scooters still popular in US cities or has that trend subsided? Last I heard people were getting fed up finding them everywhere, problems with vandals, etc.

It's a legitimate salvage.

Let's go shuck some scoots, boys!

Can you just take apart abandoned things for parts in the states? Probably just have to be a white male and no problems?

Self-hosted scooter!

Lime still seems to be doing business in Austin. Not sure about the other brands.