If you thought the whole point had anything to do with Lyft's self-driving efforts, I think you missed the point, or maybe stopped reading before it got to the

If you thought the whole point had anything to do with Lyft's self-driving efforts, I think you missed the point, or maybe stopped reading before it got to the point (it did bury the lede a bit). The argument being made is that the predatory pricing is a means to inflate the an eventual IPO so VCs can cash out. It's framing predatory pricing as being half of the strategy combined with a pump and dump, to work within the bounds of a dumb SCOTUS ruling.