On January 11, the news showed that Beijing Sankuai Online Technology Co., Ltd. (that is, Meituan) announced a technology patent, which can collect user fingerprints through fingerprint readers installed on shared bicycles, identify users' personal information, and achieve unlocking. This solution does not require the user to open the App to scan the code, and the finger can be unlocked by touching it.
As one of the four new inventions (online shopping, high-speed rail, QR code payment, and shared bicycles), sharing bicycles seems to be the most competitive among them, and there are too many companies entering the market in the early stage. The first batch of companies to enter the bureau, such as Mobike, OFO, Xiaoming, etc., either completely closed down, or were acquired by other companies, and even a shared bicycle company returned the deposit has become a problem.
Today, there are only three active shared bicycle companies, namely Alibaba's Hello Bicycle, Didi's Green Orange Bicycle, and Meituan Bicycle (formerly Mobike).
The decline and head of shared bicycles is not unexpected, although the equipment purchase price is not expensive, but the phenomenon of sharing bicycles being destroyed is very serious, and even the incident of taxi drivers partnering to throw shared bicycles into the water has been exposed before, coupled with other operating expenses, the cost of operating shared bicycles is not low.
In addition, some cities in order to avoid sharing bicycles to affect the cityscape, will also be divided into shared bicycles forbidden parking area, Xiao Lei a time riding a shared bicycle travel, did not pay attention to the parking area, the result was sent a message notice, the next time you stop in the forbidden parking area, you will deduct 5 yuan. Therefore, after a big wave of sand and sand, only three shared bicycle companies are still moist.
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The large-scale closure of shared bicycle companies does not mean that users no longer need to share bicycles, on the contrary, in the sections where buses cannot be reached and taxi prices are too expensive, shared bicycles are still not able to be replaced. Take a rural area in Guangzhou, where Xiao Lei lives, riding a shared bicycle to the neighborhood on the weekend can not only exercise, but also enjoy the scenery.
When riding a shared bicycle, it is indeed a problem to always need a mobile phone to scan the code, and everyone knows that now the App function is more than one, one is more bloated than one, it takes a few seconds to open the App, and it takes time to open the scan code function to call the camera, which is indeed more troublesome. If this fingerprint recognition function can be commercialized, we no longer need to take out our mobile phones to open the App, and it will be much more convenient to touch it with our fingers.