It's a fair complaint. At least in the USA, "ride sharing" meant some form of carpooling for a long time, and, in some jurisdictions, that definition is even ba

It's a fair complaint. At least in the USA, "ride sharing" meant some form of carpooling for a long time, and, in some jurisdictions, that definition is even baked into laws or regulations. Services like Uber do offer a ride sharing option, but using it to describe all Uber riding is a bit of a misnomer, and does have the effect of undercutting or even co-opting an existing conversation that was about congestion and environmental impact reduction rather than personal convenience. That said, the cows are already out of the barn and have been for years now. We probably can't get this new understanding of the term out of the vernacular anymore, so I guess we'll have to make do with an important conversation topic now being permanently confusing.