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At least riders seem to win?!

• gjm11 10y ago
  Right up to the point at which the traditional taxi companies go out of business, the new ones' VCs stop subsidizing them, and prices go up to higher than the taxi fares would have been if Uber and Lyft had never existed.
  • FabHK 10y ago
    That's what I suspect... So, for now we customers enjoy the convenience, and then we'll be screwed, too.
• Tiktaalik 10y ago
  Maybe in the short term, but riders may be losers in the long term too. At the moment the future of "ridesharing" with autonomous cars seems to be becoming a distraction from actually expanding public rapid transit infrastructure that everyone would benefit from. You now have people and city councillors questioning "well why do we need to spend all this money on this light rail line when autonomous car sharing is going to make this all irrelevant in a few years anyway?" Of course it remains to be seen whether autonomous cars are going to even exist in a few years let alone what positive or negative impacts they'll have on the transportation system.