Dockless bike-sharing is likely coming to a city near you. To see what the world looks like from behind the handlebars, WSJ's David Pierce takes an Uber Bike for a spin around San Francisco....
========== - It's a cool bike, right?Let's steal it.(upbeat music)So even though this isn't my bike,I can legally and easily take itor any of the other 249 just like itroaming around San Francisco.It's part of a system called Uber Bike,and it's Uber for bikes.Bike-sharing used to be
only in ultra-yuppie placeslike Brooklyn and San Francisco,but it'll likely hit
most major U.S. citiesbefore too long.There are really two different kindsof bike-sharing these days.This one's pretty straightforward.Companies just set up racks
full of bikes all over a city.But these big racks won't fit everywhere,so sometimes you have to walk 10 minutesjust to get a bike.The more interesting
bike-sharing is dockless.It's even simpl...
