{"id":976,"date":"2022-05-24T01:52:30","date_gmt":"2022-05-24T01:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/?p=976"},"modified":"2022-05-24T01:52:30","modified_gmt":"2022-05-24T01:52:30","slug":"the-inconvenient-ondemand-micromobility-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/the-inconvenient-ondemand-micromobility-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Inconvenient OnDemand &#038; Micromobility Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2007, I posted this pic of <a title=\"Al Gore with Marc Phillips\" href=\"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/lunch-with-al-gore-greentech-is-here\/ \">Al Gore and me<\/a> at Paragon restaurant on 2nd Street &amp; Townsend in San Francisco. A few weeks back I was enjoying a coffee with friends before the San Francisco Giants ballgame when I noticed this tow truck removing the <a title=\"Revel Scooter\" href=\"https:\/\/gorevel.com\/mopeds\/moped\">Revel scooter<\/a> from 2nd Street.. It&#8217;s a local rule to clear traffic around the ballpark on game days for obvious reasons.<\/p>\n<p>Having had my car towed from the Sansome Street in the city years ago, I know the $350++ fine awaits as per <a title=\"SMMTA Fines\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sfmta.com\/getting-around\/drive-park\/towed-vehicles\">SFMTA<\/a>. What is interesting is that the on demand economy sometimes doesn&#8217;t interact with the offline economy. I&#8217;ve seen <a title=\"Lime Bikes\" href=\"https:\/\/www.li.me\/vehicles\/electric-bike\">Lime Bikes<\/a> in trees and one in a creek in Menlo Park!<\/p>\n<p>Some more work to do for the engineers at these companies &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/towaway.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-977\" alt=\"towaway\" src=\"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/towaway.png\" width=\"1322\" height=\"984\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/towaway.png 1322w, https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/towaway-300x223.png 300w, https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/towaway-1024x762.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/towaway-403x300.png 403w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1322px) 100vw, 1322px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2007, I posted this pic of Al Gore and me at Paragon restaurant on 2nd Street &amp; Townsend in San Francisco. A few weeks back I was enjoying a coffee with friends before the San Francisco Giants ballgame when &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/the-inconvenient-ondemand-micromobility-economy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":978,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976\/revisions\/978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}