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Warn HN: LAPD is setting up sting operations for Lyft drivers
Sorry for the sensational title, but it's accurate. A friend of mine just got his car impounded when he went to LAX to pick up a 'passenger' who was actually a LAPD officer acting as a honeypot.
- hawleyal 12y agoThey did make it illegal ...
- cblock811 12y agoYup. I used to drive for Lyft and didn't go to the airport because... it's illegal to pickup there. If people wouldn't break the law there wouldn't be a sting. Also please don't do a 'Warn HN'... I don't think people will care enough to need a warning.
- MalcolmDiggs 12y agoWow that's pretty intense. I hear more and more people are just taking the free shuttles to the rental car places, then calling a lyft/uber from there. Just as fast, and usually avoids the lyft-primetime / uber-surge prices that often happen at the airports.
- gregcohn 12y agoAgree with point about title being too strong for general news, esp. given geographic constraints. As a point of reference, Uber do not pick up at LAX and have specific in-app notification prompts to tell you this if you open the app there. The fact that Uber hew to that requirement while ignoring regulations in many other places suggests, to me at least, that they're treating this pretty seriously and are treating it as clearly over-the-line while other things have more gray area. The fact that Lyft does not is odd, and suggests they don't have their act together. I hope this is not in fact that case -- ie that this is an outlier.