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I don’t think Lyft is disputing some form of incentive to increase utilization. I think Lyft is asking a fair question: what’s the point of an incentive for uti
by mlthoughts2018 8y ago
I don’t think Lyft is disputing some form of incentive to increase utilization. I think Lyft is asking a fair question: what’s the point of an incentive for utilization?
If the goal is to better society, in this case to better NYC congestion, then wouldn’t it make sense to incentivize companies to meet a single standardized level of utilization that is related to traffic patterns and congestion analysis?
In what way is a custom utilization rate based price good for the city? It would seem to build in a margin advantage to which ever company is already the volume leader, even if that company’s actual utilization in real terms is not at a level that meets society’s goals.
It feels honestly very much like Uber pulled strings for regulatory capture.
- notduncansmith 8y agoInteresting timing on this related article: https://angel.co/blog/why-you-should-join-a-regulated-startup https://angel.co/blog/why-you-should-join-a-regulated-startu... > In a recent talk at Columbia University, entrepreneur Steve Blank, along with Bradley Tusk, Uber's first head of policy, and Evan Burfield, author of Regulatory Hacking, discussed how some of the most exciting unicorns of the last 10 years have been launched in heavily regulated markets—and why they think that trend will only accelerate. > ... > Tusk—who'd made a career in New York politics working for Chuck Schumer and Michael Bloomberg—was experienced with these regulators. He leveraged his knowledge of NYC politics, along with Uber's massive user base, in what he gleefully described as “a vicious f$&@ing campaign” to flip the city council and halt regulation blocking Uber.