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I live in Austin, which for a period of time had basically driven out Uber and Lyft with regulation. Then, the Texas state government overruled the city, and U
by rossdavidh 8y ago
I live in Austin, which for a period of time had basically driven out Uber and Lyft with regulation. Then, the Texas state government overruled the city, and Uber and Lyft came back. I can say from personal experience, our traffic did not get the slightest bit better when Uber and Lyft were gone. However, our drunk driving rates did apparently go up.
- TallGuyShort 8y agoIn my admittedly limited experience in Austin, the problem is more parking than traffic a lot of the time (at least downtown). I rented a car the last couple of times I visited but walked or changed plans to avoid moving it. Could I have used Uber at the time, I wouldn't have rented a car in the first place: I would've effectively shared one with others, kept another parking spot open the whole time, and would've been more flexible and saved a lot of time.
- enraged_camel 8y agoI live in Austin too. The reason you didn't notice much change is that several new services swooped in to fill the gap left by Uber and Lyft. There was even a very popular Facebook group where people (illegally) solicited ride-sharing services. So, in a sense, ride-sharing never really went away.
- shard972 8y agoI don't have a FB account but i use uber so that's just not a solution that everybody would easily be able to jump over to.
- dagoat 8y agoIn that time they were gone, didn't about 6-12 other companies offering the same service spin up/get popular? Which are probably not doing as great now Lyft and Uber are back.
- rossdavidh 8y agoYou are correct, but from my (admittedly anecdotal) experience, none of them became as commonly used as Uber/Lyft were, before or after. This maybe would have changed eventually, had the situation persisted longer.