Lyft Says Nearly 250K of Its Passengers Ditched a Personal Car In 2017 (techcrunch.com)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Lyft has a new report out detailing its "economic impact" for 2017, and the document includes a lot of stats on its performance throughout the year. The ride-hailing provider claims 375.5 million rides for the year, which is 130 percent growth measured year-over-year. It served 23 million different passengers, itself a 92 percent YoY increase, and had 1.4 million drivers on the platform -- 100 percent growth vs. its total for 2016. Lyft is making some especially strong claims regarding its impact on car ownership trends: In 2017 alone, it said that almost a quarter of a million passengers on its platform dropped owning a personal vehicle, due to the availability of ridesharing specifically. Fifty percent of its users also report driving their own car less because of Lyft's service, and a quarter of those on the platform say they don't feel personal vehicle ownership is that important anymore. The ride-hailing company also found attitudes generally favorable towards self-driving vehicles and their use: 83 percent of Lyft passengers surveyed by the company said they'd be open to hailing and riding in a self-driving vehicle once they're available.

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ride-hailing

[110010001000]

You mean "illegal taxi service" right? I don't care if people use these services, I am on the side of the taxi companies! They provide such great service.

Re:ride-hailing

[Impy the Impiuos Imp]

The latter is almost instantaneous. On a really cold night a few weeks ago I couldn't get my car started, nor could AAA. How to go pick up my takeout food? He suggest Uber (taxi company had a wait of 10 people ahead of me.)

A minute to install, a few more to enter my name, address, and CC info, then enter destination and push a button. Wtf, ETA of Uber driver 6 minutes???

Standard taxies and the politicians who protect them can go drive off a cliff.

Re:ride-hailing

[sdinfoserv]

complete BS..
Lyft & Uber are parasite entities that attempt to suck profit off the back of "workers". Calling them "contractors", no benefits, using their own vehicles, competing against each other to drive down cost - by the time you factor in all costs and taxes (of which independent contractors pay ALL), these are sub-minimum wage gigs. Driving someone you don't know to a place you aren't going for money isn't "ride share", it's a taxi. period. The drivers are shorted the most and your municipalities are shorted tax revenue so your roads crumble, first responders go under funded and nobody keeps out the “bad” drivers

Re:ride-hailing

[b0s0z0ku]

The camera systems are MUCH better than Uber and friends.

Pictures are a lot harder to tie to an identity than credit card info and an email addy. Also, your link implies that the cameras use local storage, which probably gets cyclically wiped after a day or maybe a week, unless there's evidence of a crime that needs to be preserved.

I'm a lot more comfortable with a camera in a cab, since the pictures don't hit a large corporate database, and disappear from (local) storage after a short time unless there's evidence of a violent crime. And taxi companies are taxi companies -- they're not into selling your data to marketeering filth.

Re:I've Seen This at my Worksite

[b0s0z0ku]

My lose math was $15k car, $5k maintenance, $300/month gas, $180/month insurance.

When a cheapskate like me thinks of a "car," I think few-thousand-buck Craigslist special, under $100/mo liability-only insurance, wrench on it myself. God bless simple older cars and the used-by-owner section of Craigslist.