It's a commitment. It is not action, but that's not a flaw. They serve two different purposes. Commitments are how companies orient themselves to the future wh

It's a commitment. It is not action, but that's not a flaw. They serve two different purposes. Commitments are how companies orient themselves to the future while leaving open the possibility that things might change. They give people a frame to be critical of or complementary towards future actions. I see many comments on HN saying we should not critique company Y for thing A because company Y is in the business of doing B, not A. This is Lyft saying they are in the business of doing electric cars. It's ambiguous and uncertain what that means now, but is a theme to compare future actions against. To look back to a previous instance: when Google set "don't be evil" as their slogan, they suggested that they were interested in ethical critiques. I think experience has shown them to both consistently fall short of that slogan and also be more responsive to ethical critiques than, say, Palantir or Facebook. I would expect this Lyft statement to play out similarly. I'm not excited by this statement, but it's not nothing.