Ridesharing Competition
Discussions center on competition among ridesharing apps like Uber, Lyft, and Sidecar, including low barriers to entry, network effects, viability of new entrants, and ideas for aggregators or alternatives.
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Forget Google, Lyft and Sidecar are basically already the same thing as Uber. Plus local cab companies are developing their own apps. The barrier to entry in ride-dispatching is absurdly low. I wish somebody (city government? craigslist?) would just make a free clearing-house for it.
Look more at car service companies (Uber's original service), not taxis.
Uber Pool and Lyft Line are now the majority of rides in SF, not sure about other cities - but there is definitely a network affect there
wait, does the world need another ridesharing app??
Ridesharing companies compete with mass transit.
Uber/Lyft will be the ones who make this combination. Why would they let someone else do it?
Ride-sharing that can actually work!
Wasn't there an entire ride share company predicated on this idea a few years ago?
Is there a choice given other well funded startups are doing same (Lyft, Grab etc)?
Ride-sharing model but better in their view