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Re:With Lyft Line, Passengers Can Split Fares for Shared Rides by boomzilla on Wednesday August 06, 2014 @06:25PM (#8145215)
I share your sentiment. On the other hand, the upper bound of the number of car reduction is maybe 50% of the cars that would be there otherwise (assuming we can replace most single car trips by 2-3 people trips). It's a huge improvement, but the US really needs to work on public transport. Heck, why is Caltrain not more efficient?
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Re:With Lyft Line, Passengers Can Split Fares for Shared Rides by eru on Wednesday August 06, 2014 @07:27PM (#8145454)
If sharing works out pretty well, people will start using minibuses for it. So we might see another reduction.

(In essence, that's like a municipal bus service, just with a much more flexible schedule.)

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Re:With Lyft Line, Passengers Can Split Fares for Shared Rides by jarek on Thursday August 07, 2014 @07:56AM (#8147209)
Eventually you'll be able to get a shared "bus" in five minutes to take you to most common destinations and at night you will be able to get a less-shared "taxi" that will cost more since there aren't people to share your trip with you.

We'll build the brave new tech world equivalent of a decent transportation system.

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Re:With Lyft Line, Passengers Can Split Fares for Shared Rides by eru on Saturday August 09, 2014 @08:58AM (#8156806)
If that's the only way America is gonna get a decent transportation system, so be it.
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Re:With Lyft Line, Passengers Can Split Fares for Shared Rides by MarkPNeyer on Wednesday August 06, 2014 @08:00PM (#8145570)
when someone can buy a self-driving vehicle and hook it up to uber's network, buying a car could be a capital investment that gets you recurring revenue: you just hook your car up to uber's api, and take it to an automatic service station when the on-board diagnostics report that it needs work to be done.
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Re:With Lyft Line, Passengers Can Split Fares for Shared Rides by shazami on Wednesday August 06, 2014 @07:13PM (#8145403)
What's wrong with Caltrian? Seems fine to me, except the difficulty of getting to/from stations.
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Re:With Lyft Line, Passengers Can Split Fares for Shared Rides by kansface on Wednesday August 06, 2014 @08:20PM (#8145641)
Caltrain runs on diesel, is incredibly slow (much slower than driving), frequently breaks down, and doesn't travel across the bay. It was probably OK for the 70s.
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