[michaeldunworth]

Extremely far off.

1) Lyft is in the USA only. Uber is in 400+ cities. Lyft is not remotely close to Uber in terms of hurting them.

2) No. It is scalable. They burn to drown their competition. They've got more money, so once the oxygen runs out for their competitors, Uber will just put margins back to where they are, stop comping so many rides, etc...

3) Not sure how you get to this approach. Self-driving = Lower/zero driver costs. Consumer facing app mobile experience is not going to be the deciding factor of Uber's success.

I'm not sure if your statement is trolling, or if you were actually being serious... If it's a troll, very well done... If it's not, then I strongly disagree with you.

[ckastner]

> 1) Lyft is in the USA only. Uber is in 400+ cities.

A cynic might say: Lyft is losing money in the USA only. Uber is losing money in 400+ cities.

[oblio]

2) Is literally dumping, which is anti-competitive and either illegal in many jurisdictions or at least immoral everywhere else.

[SilasX]

3) Self driving = lower costs and prices, unless Uber is the only one to offer a self driving car. So it won't help profitability unless they have an effective monopoly on SDCs; if they don't, others will lower their prices for self-driven rides.