Re:Lyft’s revenues double, losses quintuple and prospects da...
by SilasX on Friday May 10, 2019 @11:36AM
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It's not unrealistic to roll that out as a profitable service.
It is unrealistic to expect that to be a moat-profitable income source for Uber, when you can rent that same SDC to Lyft -- or Tesla, for that matter [1] -- who will offer competitive terms.
[1] If they offer it for their own cars, they could probably extend the platform to allow outside cars, perhaps with different branding.
Re:Lyft’s revenues double, losses quintuple and prospects da...
by bduerst on Friday May 10, 2019 @11:43AM
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Yep, the landscape will probably be entirely different and we'll be talking about the next ridesharing unicorn that managed to corner the self-driving rideshare market.
It is unrealistic to expect that to be a moat-profitable income source for Uber, when you can rent that same SDC to Lyft -- or Tesla, for that matter [1] -- who will offer competitive terms.
[1] If they offer it for their own cars, they could probably extend the platform to allow outside cars, perhaps with different branding.