The more people use Lyft every day, the more chances someone else is going the same place you are, so picking up an extra passenger on the road (and spreading t

The more people use Lyft every day, the more chances someone else is going the same place you are, so picking up an extra passenger on the road (and spreading the cost) becomes viable. I don't know if it will work, but I think that might be one of the things they are hoping for. One other option would be self-driving cars. Looks like we hit a self-driving winter though. Another one is lobbying for less parking in towns, both improving the area and creating a captive audience and an environment where people are likely to share the ride. It's ambitious, kind of like terra-forming North America, but hey! There is also something to be said about novelty. When Uber/Lyft started there were many people just doing it for fun and beer money, but that sort of fun wears out and what you have is a different demographics - people who actually try to make a living. If Lyft/Uber were not doing demographic analysis of their driver cohorts they might have gone to sleep expecting profits with a bunch of yahoos driving others around for fun, and woken up with a bunch of blu-collar worker demanding rights and wages.