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In Europe, your bus fare would be half of the price and probably you would need one or two connections. The public transport is much more developed and to me seems like a much better mass transportation alternative. More ecological, cheaper, less cars overall.
It also helps that Europe and its cities are ... smaller.
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It also helps that Europe and its cities are ... smaller.
I don't know if you're thinking about area or population, but by either metric London is bigger than any city in the US, and has a much better public transport system.
Here is how I see it. I rely on those rides to go to work every single day and here what it (would) costs me. Uber: $250 a month.(Majority) Lyft: $500 a month (Whenever Uber is too expensive) Bus : $100 a month (1h:15 for 6 miles and 3 buses... No) Politics and all internal conflicts aside, there is a need for these services whether we like it or not. When I need to make a decision in the morning I take whatever is t…
In Europe, your bus fare would be half of the price and probably you would need one or two connections. The public transport is much more developed and to me seems like a much better mass transportation alternative. More ecological, cheaper, less cars overall.
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In Europe, your bus fare would be half of the price and probably you would need one or two connections. The public transport is much more developed and to me seems like a much better mass transportation alternative. More ecological, cheaper, less cars overall.
It also helps that Europe and its cities are ... smaller.
But you are right that the cities are more dense.
That's a problem you created yourself, though. You can't say "this would never work here, because we'd never try".
If you change your cities, it would definitely work.
Here is how I see it. I rely on those rides to go to work every single day and here what it (would) costs me. Uber: $250 a month.(Majority) Lyft: $500 a month (Whenever Uber is too expensive) Bus : $100 a month (1h:15 for 6 miles and 3 buses... No) Politics and all internal conflicts aside, there is a need for these services whether we like it or not. When I need to make a decision in the morning I take whatever is t…
For me to go to work it would be
Uber: $1000 a month, 15 minute drive. Train: $75 a month, takes 5 minutes
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In Europe, your bus fare would be half of the price and probably you would need one or two connections. The public transport is much more developed and to me seems like a much better mass transportation alternative. More ecological, cheaper, less cars overall.
Yes but that's a bus. Public transport is intrinsically a worse and less convenient experience than having a private driver.
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This can't really be solved by individual consumers. Instead, the government should introduce laws to ensure that drivers make at least minimum wage (after fuel, maintenance, taxes etc). If that is not enough, it might be necessary to raise the minimum wage.
Considering how Uber and Lyft are both loosing money as it is, using government intervention to force them to pay their drivers more will just increase their chances of going out of business and mean there will be no driving jobs at all. In this situation I'd prefer letting the market decide the prices for drivers. They had jobs before Uber, and if Uber starts paying too little then they can try going back to those k…
... maybe they should be subsidized by taxes.
According to leaked financial in [1], Lyft is expected to generate $32M of net revenue on about $158M of fare, while losing $50M per month. If everything stays the same, Lyft would have to raise rate by 156% to break even. Also, Lyft's growth is mostly purchased: > While rides increased about 11 percent from April to May, fully paid rides, without the use of a coupon or a credit, grew by only 5 percent in that period…
It's not hard to imagine that after this multi-city expansion, costs will go way down.
I wouldn't qualify the growth as "mostly purchased" when it's... 50/50 couponed/full? That seems to be more a consequence of the multi-city launch than anything.
I'm pretty optimistic of Lyft's chances here (politically motivated by Uber's attitude, granted). They're spending a lot of money to capture parts of a well-defined market (US carsharing), and have a PR edge with informed riders.
Uber could theoretically start couponing to hell and back in the US again, but they're going to run out of money someday.
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This is a complaint against American culture in a broader sense, not really Lyft specifically. Valid complaint for sure, just misdirected.
No, it's a complaint against Lyft since they made a conscious decision to include tipping, while their main competitor demonstrated that modern American companies do not need to bow to stupid customs. [edit: shouldn't have implied that Uber is financially successful]