Fucking up escooters - Kill escooters, behead escooters, roundhouse kick...

[Gender: Xenomorph]

Ok so I hate escooters. I hate people driving these scooters like maniacs. I hate people who leave them in the middle of the road.

What is an ¿ethical? way to fuck up scooters and the companies behind them, without causing damage or vandalism, just inconveniencing the riders?

Like, driving them into ditches/forest is one thing, especially now that they allow you to move them a couple of feet.

For context, cops won't do anything. Reckless driving? Bikes dumped in the middle of the road? Not a single fine.

 

[Grim_Autismo]

Depends on the scooters, there are actually ways to defeat the mechanisms that lock (some of) them in place if you have a Flipper device available to you.

 

[Gender: Xenomorph]

Depends on the scooters, there are actually ways to defeat the mechanisms that lock (some of) them in place if you have a Flipper device available to you.

Even rental scooters? (Tyre or whatever)

 

[Grim_Autismo]

It depends on what exploits are available for the scooter. Some are just running raspberry pis, others simple android devices. Different ones are running different devices that control the locking/payment mechanisms so you'll want to do your research before doing your total theoretical research into penetrating e-scooters for this school project. Sometimes it's a matter of interrupting the service that calls back home (that's the usual route for a lot of IoT devices) but this could brick it, again, there are probably a lot of discussions out there about the specific brand. I know the Lime ones were VERY vulnerable for a bit to Flippers and they pushed an update probably 18 months ago, people were getting tons of free rides.

New vulnerabilities are found all the time though, and flippers are cool tools because it's a full spectrum analysis tool in your pocket covering many bands that you can test on. Not sure if the newer ones need the wifi module or not, so if you grab one make sure you check because you'll want one for later.

 

[Asian tech support]

What is an ¿ethical? way to fuck up scooters and the companies behind them, without causing damage or vandalism, just inconveniencing the riders?

Why not hurt the companies? They're the ones putting the scooters into the hands of the soybeards and lunchtime rowdies. It's their trash that's in the fucking road.

 

[We Are The Witches]

Why not hurt the companies? They're the ones putting the scooters into the hands of the soybeards and lunchtime rowdies. It's their trash that's in the fucking road.

I'm cynical about such companies, but the fault is perpetrated by the moron that uses it. You can be a good boy/girl with a scooter, why would anyone else other than the immoral retards have to pay for their mistakes?

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Also, I thought you were not going to make any questionable decisions/vandalism. If it's like that (with bikes, scooters and even cars), then you can just scratch them and slash the tires or something of that sort.

If there was enough public outrage/complaints about it, then maybe things would change legally, which I know is difficult. Are the people littering the forests with these? Then you need to raise a complaint about it.

 

[PovertySprocket]

Build a plywood box slightly bigger than the deck of the scooter, put a rent-a-scooter inside and fill it with concrete. You should now have a rectangular box of concrete with handlebars poking out. Put it in a art gallery, give it a pretentious name.

 

[LazyLizard]

i despise escooters with a passion, it would be one thing if they were owned by the people who use them but no it's a big foreign company that owns them and dump thousands of them on my streets and the people using them take no responsibility and just leave them in the middle of the street because fuck it why not not their property so why would they care. the companies need to be fined for littering every time a scooter is left out and if nothing changes confiscate the "abandoned" scooters.

 

[Preacher ✝]

Just leave them in black neighborhoods.

 

[Kosher Dill]

Just leave them in black neighborhoods.

With 10% battery life.

chirp

 

[Neodanthril]

I wonder if a strong enough magnet or electro magnet could brick the thing

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

electric bike shit is so fucking goddamn bullshit that even fags who ride bicycles a lot like me think they suck

 

[Xarpho's Return]

I'd often knock them down when I was working in a downtown shithole and cursed I was too far away from the river to send it to the watery depths.

Just leave them in black neighborhoods.

I often imagined that I could use the homeless to my advantage. Indicate that there's probably copper and more valuable metals hidden just inside...

 

[Gender: Xenomorph]

I'd often knock them down when I was working in a downtown shithole and cursed I was too far away from the river to send it to the watery depths.

That's not enough. I drive them in shrubs or ditches now that they can be moved a bit.

 

[Jump]

They are litter.
Put them in the nearest dumpster.

 

[Seymour Duncan]

0:10

 

[Catch The Rainbow]

Do nothing and wait. Eventually the users will get injured and you win.

 

[Apteryx Retardi]

I'd often knock them down when I was working in a downtown shithole and cursed I was too far away from the river to send it to the watery depths.


I often imagined that I could use the homeless to my advantage. Indicate that there's probably copper and more valuable metals hidden just inside...

Aren't they full of basic bitch 18650s? Someone could start a laptop/power tool battery refurb business with those.

 

[Core1036]

Put them in the nearest dumpster.

Where I live I seen respectable (but French) gentlemen chuck those in the canal on a semi-regular basis.
At my old place some POS used to ride one of those rental things to where he lived (yes, I have CCTV of it) and leave it in front of my door because it was out of the way for him but I hated seeing so I would throw it down the stairs to where the POS lived so it was no longer my problem.

Those that I see used by the rental companies are generally made by 3-4 OEMs who have their own service apps for rental company techs to go out and do stuff like locking, unlocking, opening the deck to swap batteries. Generally Chinese software isn't known for good security so I have considered something like a ESP32 or a android app to brick those (they have a disable option in the service app) in range or even a beacon to just cause every one in range to have the deck pop open for extra amusement.

The more fun option is to go around and replace the QR codes on the things with one that either redirects to a rickroll or a more "interactive" page, from which you can mess with the user in a near unlimited number of ways. (I would just stuck with a rickroll or "Shit ain't workin, dog" sort of thing)

 

[Gender: Xenomorph]

The more fun option is to go around and replace the QR codes on the things with one that either redirects to a rickroll or a more "interactive" page, from which you can mess with the user in a near unlimited number of ways. (I would just stuck with a rickroll or "Shit ain't workin, dog" sort of thing)

I've been thinking of replacing/sticking things over the QR code, problem is the plastic they put on top is non-stick and hard to scratch.