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Re:Lyft Is Said to Seek a Buyer, Without Success by chrischen on Friday August 19, 2016 @05:43PM (#12323732)
Areas with sprawl are best suited to car ownership.

Dense urban areas are better suited to mass transit.

Uber fills a niche of point to point transport that's current overutilized because of VC subsidization.

Even if you get rid of the driver, you can't expect everyone in an urban core to do point to point transit, especially with the inefficiencies of pick up and drop off.

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Re:Lyft Is Said to Seek a Buyer, Without Success by trestles on Friday August 19, 2016 @06:47PM (#12324066)
I know a LOT of people who prefer Uber to self-driving. Expect that to be an emergent behavior once the cost of the driver is subtracted.
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Re:Lyft Is Said to Seek a Buyer, Without Success by toomuchtodo on Friday August 19, 2016 @05:46PM (#12323752)
I agree.
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