SoBi: The zipcar for Bike

Everything is becoming social these days. Thanks to a New York based startup company called SoBi, we will experience social biking soon. Given the active bike sharing program in Washington, D.C. I hope some genius Washingtonian picks this up, enhance the model and implement it for the Washingtonians.

The concept presents an alternative to traditional public transportation and will allow riders the freedom to find and unlock nearby available communal bikes using an smartphone like Android or iPhone. If you don’t have either of the phones, you can simply enter your account number and pincode into the keypad on the lockbox. Read more of this post