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I mean this only makes sense if it's affordable for the rider, driver, and Uber. There's simply no evidence this is even likely: only the rider benefits. Which
by duaneb 10y ago
I mean this only makes sense if it's affordable for the rider, driver, and Uber. There's simply no evidence this is even likely: only the rider benefits. Which is enough to destroy existing taxi companies.
What would have been great would have been a universal ride hailing app hooking into the local companies.
- adevine 10y agoUber and Lyft left Austin at the beginning of the year over fingerprinting rules. Since then, there has been an explosion of smaller ride sharing companies: Fare, Fasten, GetMe, and, most interestingly, RideAustin, which is a local non profit started by Austin tech luminaries. The apps were certainly much buggier than Uber or Lyft when they started, but I recently took a Ride Austin, and the app is so similar to Uber (as was the experience), that I wonder if Ride Austin will eventually branch out into other cities, at least by licensing their tech. The Texas lege will likely override Austin's local regulations next year, so it will be interesting to see what happens when the fingerprinting requirements go away and Uber and Lyft come back.