[danjoc]

Didn't lyft shut down their carpool commute feature, because nobody wanted that?

If you're "ride sharing" without actually stopping to pick up/drop off additional passengers, it's just a taxi. An unlimited, unregulated number of taxis. More cars on the road, fewer people on public transport, more pollution.

It's possible I misunderstand how these taxi companies work. I'm invisible to them. I don't have their apps. I'd rather they not track my movements every half minute for the government to subpoena, for a fee of course.

[astrange]

Don't worry, Lyft Line definitely exists.

I don't know what kind of crime being a passenger in one would result in though.

[danjoc]

Who says you have to be in the car?

http://www.businessinsider.com/uber-soon-able-to-track-your-...

Or did they roll that "feature" back?

[astrange]

https://www.macrumors.com/2017/06/07/ios-11-restrict-locatio...

If you care about the police, they can subpoena your phone's location no matter what app is running on it. They can also find your car with license plate readers.

[danjoc]

False equivalence. Capturing that kind of granular information is HARD and phone companies do not do it at the level Uber is capable of.

http://highscalability.com/blog/2016/9/28/how-uber-manages-a...