Lyft Carpool: A New Way to Commute
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Lyft Carpool: A New Way to Commute
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#2Very similar to wunder's current model. (http://www.wunder.org/en/)
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#3Lyft are spending time and money on things like this (it looks great to be fair) but they can't be bothered to compete with Uber in markets outside of the US.
Seems a bit of a shame really...
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#4I wonder what this will do the the already established causal carpool for crossing the bay bridge. At the moment, it's free for riders, the benefit for the driver being that they skip the toll.
On the upside, I had a friend who was a rider, and had lots of stories of terrible drivers. Once he witnessed the driver hit a person and then drive off, and then drop off my friend. My friend called the police, but I guess with Lyft carpool this type of thing wouldn't happen, or at least not as often?
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#5Lyft are spending time and money on things like this (it looks great to be fair) but they can't be bothered to compete with Uber in markets outside of the US. Seems a bit of a shame really...
They need to grow within their budget -- Uber has way more funding than they do.
Lyft is scaling by leveraging technology to be better. Uber is doing that but also burning cash opening in new markets. The only way Lyft can compete is to out-innovate Uber.
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#6It is good to see Lyft moving towards a more civic minded direction in their business model. A lot of "disruption" talk is simply code for deregulation.
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#7Lyft are spending time and money on things like this (it looks great to be fair) but they can't be bothered to compete with Uber in markets outside of the US. Seems a bit of a shame really...
Lyft has been working with local Uber competitors in various non-U.S. markets.
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#8I can see drivers/passengers travelling together for weeks or months at a time. So you'd probably just want to quit Lyft and enter a private arrangement. Is there anything in Lyft's business model to prevent or mitigate this?
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#9Awesome! Congratulations on the launch!
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#10I can see drivers/passengers travelling together for weeks or months at a time. So you'd probably just want to quit Lyft and enter a private arrangement. Is there anything in Lyft's business model to prevent or mitigate this?
It says riders pay up to $10 per ride and drivers get up to $10 per ride. This makes me think that Lyft won't be taking a cut from the carpool rides. If that's the case, then Lyft is also providing a super easy way to pay the driver without having to remember to bring cash.