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Can we please stop referring to these services as "sharing"? Lyft actually started as a company that coordinated the sharing of rides, i.e., no money was involv
by lr 7y ago
Can we please stop referring to these services as "sharing"? Lyft actually started as a company that coordinated the sharing of rides, i.e., no money was involved. But the "sharing" pretense has long since past for all of these companies.
- thebluehawk 7y agoRight? It's nonsense. A grocery store isn't "food sharing", and a barber isn't "hair cut sharing". It's one party paying another for a product/service. Uber/Lyft's killer feature is the app pairing those two parties. But no one is "sharing".
- papln 7y agogoogle.com/search?q=buy+a+share+of+a+cow
- egypturnash 7y agoWe need a new word for "taxi companies with cute apps, unsustainable pricing/wages and lots of Silicon Valley venture capital propping them up" to distinguish them from old-school taxi companies if we're gonna quit saying "rideshare". Any suggestions?
- lr 7y ago"hired car" // been in use for decades "ride for hire" "car for hire" "fee for service"
- jhbadger 7y agoThe dot-cab bubble?
- Marazan 7y agoMacro-cab firms.
- toast0 7y agoI prefer unlicensed taxis.
- crooked-v 7y agoWhile this is accurate, I think the subtext of it conflicts with the common anecdotal claims (including mine) far preferring Uber over actual licensed taxis.
- blt 7y agogig cabs
- papln 7y agoYou know what it's caled when a bunch of people put up capital or labor in exchange for a portion of the retrun from coordinated activity. It's called buying a share -- from adventurers to publicly traded corporations. Lyft isn't ride sharing because people aren't dividing up cars to rides, not because money is involved. Car2Go/Flexcar are car sharing. Carpooling is ride-sharing.