We don’t call them taxis in California because in most California cities they’re different because of: * no access to red lanes * only app-based payment * un

We don’t call them taxis in California because in most California cities they’re different because of: * no access to red lanes * only app-based payment * unique pickup/dropoff locations at airports and other such places If we called them computer-dispatched taxi we’d confuse that with Flywheel-style stuff which can use red lanes, take cash, and use taxi locations. We could call them Taxi Type 2 but that’s super confusing. “TNCs” is just an awful name so we use something that sounds intuitive “ridesharing”, since we know that pooling is possible on these services. It’s just a name. No one has proposed an alternative simple enough.