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In reply to the discussion: Carpocalypse now: Lyft's founders are right -- we're in the endgame for cars [View all]trev
(1,480 posts)36. So what wil the Lyft drivers drive?
I used to drive for Lyft. They require a well-maintained, somewhat late-model sedan in order to participate. This is not a particularly inexpensive car. Lyft cannot exist without cars.
Even if they're right (which I doubt), it's going to take decades to wean Americans off our personal vehicles. I live in the PNW, where there are not a lot of big cities, little to poor public transportation, and trucks and SUVs are legion. I don't see people giving these up anytime soon. A lot of car manufacturers recognize this, and are in the process of discontinuing cars in favor of these larger vehicles.
At the moment, the rage is for self-driving cars. Even Lyft is in on this venture. https://www.digitaltrends.com/cars/lyft-files-for-ipo-sec/
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Carpocalypse now: Lyft's founders are right -- we're in the endgame for cars [View all]
littlemissmartypants
Mar 2019
OP
What if the vehicle showed up when you needed it and went away when you didn't?
Voltaire2
Mar 2019
#59
Those 3 trips would have cost a couple hundred dollars w Lyft. Personal car cost was a fraction
Arazi
Mar 2019
#62
Excellent point. This is an issue that hasn't been dealt with, full of empty promises
littlemissmartypants
Mar 2019
#88
Talking to my daughter in Austin yesterday and we agree that this concept is great for the inner
efhmc
Mar 2019
#95
The end of car ownership will go hand in hand with the redesign of cities and work
marylandblue
Mar 2019
#4
It is sad. Women are always holding the short end of the stick if they
littlemissmartypants
Mar 2019
#21
It really doesn't. I understand. More people are just barely making it and
littlemissmartypants
Mar 2019
#24
So it's car owners, not the clogging infestation of Lyft and Uber drivers, who are the problem?
NBachers
Mar 2019
#6
Wow. That's what you got out of the OP and the discussion of it? Again, wow.
DontBooVote
Mar 2019
#40
I live near one of those stupid high-speed highways that has traffic lights every mile.
CrispyQ
Mar 2019
#52
Sounds like s/he had a right to be scared. Sounds extremely dangerous. nt
littlemissmartypants
Mar 2019
#89
combined with more locally sourced goods (i.e. less need for shipping things like produce, etc.)
anarch
Mar 2019
#13
You don't fully appreciate the freedom of having a car until you spend a few days without it.
Midwestern Democrat
Mar 2019
#15
I once exited a relationship that had become non-consensual by jumping out of a moving car.
hunter
Mar 2019
#94
We already have "transportation as a service." It's called public transportation.
WhiskeyGrinder
Mar 2019
#33
they are full of themselves. Not all of america lives in huge metro areas...simple error in
beachbum bob
Mar 2019
#54
It won't kill off cars, but could for seniors, and reduce cars in multi-driver households.
TheBlackAdder
Mar 2019
#76
The future is driverless pods. Most summoned by apps. Some privately owned.
CrossingTheRubicon
Mar 2019
#80