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Re:Lyft Loses $600M in 2016 as Revenue Rises to $700M by seibelj on Sunday January 15, 2017 @11:52AM (#13404833)
Wow! Really? My commute from the southern edge of Boston (Jamaica Plain) to the northern part (Allston / HBS) on Friday involved 2 road constructions, a car stopped inside a rotary that made the entire loop gridlocked, and countless pedestrians jay walking because the fine was reduced to $1 in the 1970's so no one cares.[0] I'm not sure people who live in grid cities and calm suburbs can even comprehend the madness here. Self-driving cars will take decades here.

[0] http://www.mass.gov/courts/selfhelp/tickets/jaywalking.html

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Re:Lyft Loses $600M in 2016 as Revenue Rises to $700M by stale2002 on Sunday January 15, 2017 @12:58PM (#13405286)
Who cares? If self driving cars work for 50 percent of cities, that is still massively massively revolutionary. That's still trillions of dollars.

People are underestimating how game changing "mostly working" self driving cars are.

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