If you live in a US city, car-sharing services like Lyft and Uber might seem omnipresent. However, the ride-sharing economy still has a ways to go, at least according to consumer sentiment.
Lyft is determined to become a player in self-driving cars — and is opening its own autonomous vehicle center to show it
Lyft is starting to get serious about self-driving cars.
Imagine life without cars
The big benefit from new IT-mediated car services will come if they make it possible for lots of people.
There has been a lot of discussion lately about Uber, Lyft, and all that. The big benefit from new IT-mediated car services will come if they make it possible for lots of people, not just people in Manhattan, to live without owning their own cars. And if you think about it, you can see how that might work.
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One-third of San Francisco’s registered cab drivers ditch taxis for Uber, Lyft, or Sidecar
Lyft drivers sport “carstaches” on their vehicles while on duty.
San Francisco is where Uber and Lyft got their starts and resistance to these services seems futile. One third of taxi cab drivers in San Francisco have ditched their registered cabs and are now working for Uber, Lyft, or Sidecar, according to Fortune.
