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That seems like it's going after a very small segment of the market.
That seems like it's going after a very small segment of the market.
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Hmm, this makes me wonder if there's room in the market for an app specifically targeted towards people who want to find carpool partners and coordinate schedules among carpool groups.
What advantage would this app offer over the Lyft app?
This is really great – though I wonder if Lyft runs the risk of people making the connection once (i.e. finding a person with similar commute times/locations who is willing to pay for rides) and deciding to arrange a paid carpool that doesn't go through Lyft.
This may work out for others though.
The messaging here is off. "Driver Destination" implies it has generalized applications -> be a Lyft driver where ever you are going. In practice, they need to get traction in the one big market for this: commuters. Better marketing will call it what it is: Lyft Commute - share a ride from home to work (claiming the product name 'Commute' also stops Uber from using it)
Drop someone off at airport, pick someone up who's going near your house or anywhere along your route.
Same for big game, weekend rush to the beach communities, other events.
It's a good natural counterbalance for 'surge pricing', since whenever there is big demand there are probably people on overlapping routes.
Shared carpooling (called "slugging" here) has a been a viable commuting option for people in the DC area for decades. No money changes hands; the point is that a car with 3+ people can use the much faster HOV lanes. http://www.slug-lines.com/Slugging/About_slugging.asp
The thing is, I've never heard that term until now. I lived in the DC area for two years and worked with quite a few commuters. It's cool that it's a concept but there hasn't been mainstream adoption to the point where it's as easy as an app in your pocket until now. If a tree falls in the woods...
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In that case, most people would want to ensure round-trips, though.
That's not an issue with going to work? This ride-sharing idea only works if both ends of the trip have sufficient traffic to promote carpooling.
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It's a fairly ubiquitous concept in DC. Hell, the website Zoe goes to work from in House of Cards is named after it.
Hm, I'd assumed that was a reference to the newspaper/typesetting term "slugline". But maybe it's both.
Slug line (two words) is apparently a screenwriting term--which I didn't know.