Be careful, you're suspiciously close to saying the uber is nothing more than FTP, curlftpfs and CVS. [1] I'm not arguing that Uber is worth it value, but dismissing the tech & usability involved is a treacherous road to go down.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

In my area, they add no real value over the standard taxi companies. Literally the only advantage to them is that they're cheaper (which is an artificial and unsustainable difference). Everything else they do is also done equally well by the cab companies.

That may be why there aren't an increasing number of Uber and Lyft drivers here, but the taxi companies are expanding.

In your area, do taxi companies operate a service "Lift Line" or the uber equivalent, in which you share a taxis with strangers who are going in a similar direction?

I have never seen a non-app taxi service do this, and it's a real genuine technology enabled value add. Is it 50 billion bucks worth? Probably not. But it isn't 0 either.

I grew up with something like this. We called them buses, they were pretty cool :)

I have no idea, since that's not a feature that I'd notice or look for.

> I have never seen a non-app taxi service do this

What do you mean by a non-app taxi service? All of the taxi companies here have apps that work pretty much the same as Uber and Lyft's.

Do your local cab companies offer the equivalent of uber pool or lyft line?

Doesn't Flywheel already own that space?