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This may be semantics but technically Lyft was the first to come up with the Uberx model of anyone becoming a driver.

• cududa 9y ago
  Not really. They head Uber was about to launch it and pre-emoted by a few days. Still to this day haven’t been able to suss out who was really first with the idea.
  • stunthamsterio 9y ago
    Interestingly, I used to work for a company that worked with the London Black cab manufacture to developer ride-hailing from a mobile phone. This was back in the early 00's. I always wondered if there was any patent portfolio that is relevant to Lyft/Uber. It was called Zingo, sadly the only reference I could dig out from a cursory Google was a story about it going bust: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2004/nov/25/transportintheuk https://www.theguardian.com/business/2004/nov/25/transportin...
  • malandrew 9y ago
    I thought SideCar was first with the idea.