No genuine attention paid to the environment, and the reporter didn't bother to push- congestion issues warrant this kind of questioning.
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From a 5/19/2018 Newsweek article: "A gay couple was forced to leave a Lyft car after the driver saw them embracing, according to a report from the IndyStar." See Zimm, it's every day your company does something really bad.
Hey Zimm, I rather hail a cab, than use either service. Every day, there's another creepy article about one of your drivers, enough to weird even me out.
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Gee, I’m no fan, but a bit extreme. Why not settle for a sprained ankle.
The gig economy has always seemed like a spin-off from Hunger Games. We don't - and won't ever - use lyft, uber, airbnb or anything in that vein.
Jitney cabs, which are exactly what uber and lyft cars are, wreak havoc on downtown driving. Who needs an on-call jitney in downtown Chicago? Are people incapable of hailing a taxi? How incompetent can an adult be that she/he can't catch a cab?
Jitney drivers don't know where they're going, they straddle traffic lanes driving 10mph, pull over blocking traffic at whim, then their muddle-headed fares stumble about trying to decide how to load themselves and their wares - clotting already bad traffic. Meanwhile, genuine cabbies have seen the value of their city-mandated taxi medallions plummet.
We need to add a minimum $3 surcharge to any and every non-taxi fare in the city limits. The first use of this revenue is to refund whatever the holder of a taxi medallion paid for this now worthless permit to be a taxi. After the city has bought back all the medallions, use 100% of the proceeds from these surcharges towards improving public transit - reduce CTA fares, decorate bus stops, put flowers on trains, raise driver salaries, new uniforms - anything because it's free money. Spend it all and thank the uber riders for their support.
It's not right that these jitney services worsen just getting around for most of us. Tax, tax, tax the selfish users. Maybe we need a London-style toll for driving downtown, too!
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_taxicab_operation
Could you have picked a more obscure word?I
What point is there in communicating a point if no-one knows what you are trying to say?
Anyway,that's Wikipedia I linked to for others.
It's an interesting history that predates uber/lyft that you referenced.
Thanks for bringing it up.I would have never heard of it otherwise.
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I think most people know this word.
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This headline is pretty tacky, to be honest. John Zimmer said (very mildly) "I don't think so" the first two times he was asked if he would ever take an Uber. Then on the third (very dramatic) question, he again said I don't think so.
I'm not sure how "he would rather die than take an Uber" then becomes the takeaway headline - it's misleading at best. Come on, NYT, you can do better than that.
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Come on now! Lyft and Uber are not "ride-sharing companies." They are ride-selling companies. No reasonable person would call Walmart a "product-sharing company."
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brilliant skewer!
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He'll be happy to know that most Lyft drivers double as Uber drivers
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It’s a cab firm. That’s all.
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And some of us still take cabs.
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A Manhattanite, I have a Lyft app on my iPhone, but I've not used it yet.
These days I feel badly for Yellow Cab drivers, so I hail one of those when a subway train trip is decided against.
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Lyft and Uber are the Avis and Hertz of ridesharing.
I, too, would rather die than take Uber. The same way I would never shop at Walmart or order anything from Amazon. Any organization built on abusing employees is scratched off my book.
If Lyft descends into the same cesspool as Uber, I will boycott it as well.
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My best friends daughter passed away a year ago in the desert from heat exhaustion during that severe heat wave and I guarantee you.. she wished either could have given her a ride. What an insensitive statement to say you would rather die. I think not!
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I feel like they should have asked why he wouldn't take an uber
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I was visiting Austin at a time when Uber was, at least temporarily, banned for not complying with local mandates regarding the finger printing of their drivers. My son told me to download the Ride Austin app. After my visit I used Ride Austin to get to the airport. My driver at 4:30 AM, newly arrived in country, was a Mexican fellow with maybe a dozen words of English. He was driving the creakiest, oldest and smallest Hyundai that I'd ever seen. My first thought was, "this is how I die today". The ride was really scary but I gave the driver a generous tip as I was so happy to make it to the airport in one piece.
Too many accidents in Tesla's hands free cars make me leery about driverless cars. Technology is great but it can be hacked. I like the idea of having a driver in case something goes wrong. I'm sure that will change as the technology improves but we're not there yet and won't be anytime soon.
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Hypocrite.
Lyft is a money-making company like Uber, so what's the difference between the 2 companies?
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Lyft allows me to easily tip my driver within the app, according to a friend who drives for both treats their drivers better, and hasn't had any of the scandals that has plagued Uber. If you're going to use a car service at least Lyft allows you to use one that treats its employees decently. All businesses are in the business of making money because that's what capitalism is all about and that's okay as long as you don't deliberately break the law or treat your employees poorly.
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He's "the president and co-founder of Lyft". I don't see anything hypocritical about saying publicly that you don't use/would not use your competition's product. (In fact, I'd be shocked if he'd answered any other way.)
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