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Your suspicions are not correct (I personally hired many taxis through both Uber and Lyft prior to 2020). I challenge your assertion that shared rides were the
by i_am_proteus 4y ago
Your suspicions are not correct (I personally hired many taxis through both Uber and Lyft prior to 2020).
I challenge your assertion that shared rides were the "main" offering: Uber Pool was 20% of rides in 2016.zero]
Use "ride-hailing" or just call these things what they are: taxis.
[zero]https://techcrunch.com/2016/05/10/uber-says-that-20-of-its-rides-globally-are-now-on-uber-pool/ https://techcrunch.com/2016/05/10/uber-says-that-20-of-its-r...
- Izkata 4y agoIt may not be what people selected, but at least in Lyft it was the default and cheapest option. Pre-2020 all my Lyft rides were shared.
- chrischen 4y agoYour article was from 2016, a mere 2 years after the launch of POOL. Shared rides became the default option and by 2019 I didn’t know a single person that rented out a whole car just for themselves unless they also had a group of people more than 2.