ironic that bike sharing is supposed to help the environment by reducing the reliance on cars, but the stark reality in china is that the copy cat clones are causing massive competition through aggressive funding and trying to displace each other by means of being the company with the most reach i.e. most bikes. i am abhorred by the waste of resources on such a massive scale, backed by vc’s who are in it for money only, what happened to changing the world? i live in shanghai and i see these damn bikes encroach on every sidewalk, users park these damn things anywhere and everywhere they please, and there are a lot of mobike, ofo, etc just sitting there being unused, orange, yellow, green, blue, white. for companies’ whose premise is being green, the hypocrisy is too blatant, everyone’s just trying to get rich quick. one could argue that the number of cars would be increasing faster if not for these bike sharing services, which makes bike sharing the lesser of two evils, but come on, if just one bike company were to stand and say, enough of this crap, i don’t need mass coverage of a city with my bikes, i win by having principles and creating an innovative experience that separates me from my competitors, i would jump on that in a heartbeat!