BSG

Alright so during my time out of school and work; considering a free man, I have been trying out latest gadgets lately. BLUESG yes! It has been out for quite some time and I can tell you most of the people who had the early birds are hogging up the system as they had the free 2 hour daily till 31 Jan. So unfair for those who were slightly late. But the slightly late people also had a promotion of free 1 year membership. The downside to this was that the auto-renew process would kick in and those signed up will have to fork up $15 every month.

Rental timing charges.
Simply put:
Yearly: 0.33/min ***take note the $15 after 12 months.
Weekly: 0.50/min

They just can't seem to get the steps right:
Simply put:
2 scenarios
1(Starting): TAP(CP), TYPE(Pairing/Pin), TAP(unlock), PRESS&UNPLUG&PLUG,
2(Returning): TAP(CP), UNPLUG&PLUG, TAP(lock)
***CP - Charging Point

My Experiences

On the first ride, since it was daunting to me, I had only unlocked the car and drove it around the multi-storey carpark at 2A Lorong Liew Lian. It was fun but I overshot the 15 minutes minimum to an addition of 7 minutes as I had trouble parking it back and had to call. (I had to call for both rides lol)

On the second ride, I was being forced by myself. I had to collect birthday presents for my mum and sis. Something spur my initiative when I decided to call bluesg for them to activate my membership as it was sitting there pending forever. Luckily the person was nice to expedite the membership and my weekly membership was valid at last. Just nice the ang mo kio carpark had 1 bluesg car and I just had to try it. I exchanged whatsapp with people about my ordeal and off I went to unlock it. I then hit the road. Navigating was scary as I had to be ahead with the upcoming turns and change lanes while doing so. Yep nothing serious but had some honks as I had to change two once.

References

*** Update 16 Feb 2018 - So unlucky that when we were about to leave the house on cny for visitation, the ang mo kio parking did not have anymore space and thus did not have the chance to drive there. However, the ride back created much speculations. Mum blurted out that I was driving which led to the summarized version: "Jason is driving" + use bluesg. Whole bunch of us then waddled our way to the parking lot to find my reserved car. Showed them how to unlock and then I was off. Got nearly lost at bishan flyover but managed to u-turn around toa payoh temple there and got back on track on another route(Upper Serangoon). I really need to read the map much more carefully.

*** Update 8 Nov 2018 - So I finished dropping off another package to near Sengkang at "Rumbia" LRT Station. It started raining slightly and decided that cycling home was not an option. I actually thought of going home by LRT and then NEL line but what is the fun of it. I decided to launch the bluesg app and search for a station near me. To my surprise there was one just at the carpark behind the LRT station. The thought of this so-called refresher course gave me a tingle in my nerve. Alright so here are the images of my rental and the route taken. Surprised my reverse parking was spot on as my positioning at the start was kinda off. After reversing completely to the curb, I opened the door to check and it was within the green zone which was good.