Lyft Is Said to Seek a Buyer, Without Success

Re:Lyft Is Said to Seek a Buyer, Without Success by bcoates on Friday August 19, 2016 @05:53PM (#12323793)

They're extremely complimentary. In LA (for example) mass transit has a tendency to strand you, and traditional taxis and car services have gigantic no-go areas unless you're a VIP.

I can take a bus or train anywhere at any time, knowing that if I'm, for example, south of Washington at any time of day or downtown after 2am, I can call a car and still get home. In the 00s, the only way out of those zones was to bring your own car or be prepared for a "Falling Down" style 10 mile walk.

Yellow cabs (then and still) don't enter a massive buffer zone around regions where they might get a black guy as a fare even if you called, but Uber serves those areas reliably, 24/7.

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Re:Lyft Is Said to Seek a Buyer, Without Success by xenadu02 on Friday August 19, 2016 @06:15PM (#12323896)

Absolutely agree with this. There is no reason we can't move people the way we move goods. Public transit, trains/planes, etc serve as the distribution network. Self-driving cars are the "last mile" delivery service.

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Re:Lyft Is Said to Seek a Buyer, Without Success by chrischen on Saturday August 20, 2016 @01:32PM (#12327509)

LA is uniquely sprawled, and like I said it only works for less dense suburban areas.

Wherever it's deployed you have to conisder the traffic and congestion repercussions if everyone uses it, not just rich people.

Transit has to move poor and middle class people too.

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