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Victim blaming is generally reprehensible. Further, I imagine that as a nascent business the notion that competitors would be so unethical didn't seem to be a t

• jonknee 12y ago
  There's no victim here, this is one extraordinarily rich startup complaining about another extraordinarily rich startup. Meanwhile taxi lobbies complain about them both. To add some perspective, this is 5,560 rides in the last 10 months or ~550 per month or less than 20 per day. There aren't any recent figures, but as of May 2013 they were doing 30,000 rides per week and growing very quickly. A large amount of the cancellations were from a couple people and it also mentioned that when not canceling they took short rides and tried to poach the drivers. It's pretty obvious what a few of the recruiters are doing--asking for rides to be able and pitch the driver, but then canceling when it's a driver who already said no. tl;dr a very small number of sleezy recruiters have gotten under the skin of Lyft.
  • icambron 12y ago
    > There's no victim here, this is one extraordinarily rich startup complaining about another extraordinarily rich startup. That you don't care about the victim does not make them not a victim.