[lr]

Can we please stop referring to these services as "sharing"? Lyft actually started as a company that coordinated the sharing of rides, i.e., no money was involved. But the "sharing" pretense has long since past for all of these companies.

[thebluehawk]

Right? It's nonsense. A grocery store isn't "food sharing", and a barber isn't "hair cut sharing". It's one party paying another for a product/service. Uber/Lyft's killer feature is the app pairing those two parties. But no one is "sharing".

[papln]

google.com/search?q=buy+a+share+of+a+cow

[egypturnash]

We need a new word for "taxi companies with cute apps, unsustainable pricing/wages and lots of Silicon Valley venture capital propping them up" to distinguish them from old-school taxi companies if we're gonna quit saying "rideshare".

Any suggestions?

[jhbadger]

The dot-cab bubble?

[toast0]

I prefer unlicensed taxis.

[crooked-v]

While this is accurate, I think the subtext of it conflicts with the common anecdotal claims (including mine) far preferring Uber over actual licensed taxis.

[lr]

"hired car" // been in use for decades

"ride for hire"

"car for hire"

"fee for service"

[Marazan]

Macro-cab firms.

[blt]

gig cabs

[papln]

You know what it's caled when a bunch of people put up capital or labor in exchange for a portion of the retrun from coordinated activity. It's called buying a share -- from adventurers to publicly traded corporations.

Lyft isn't ride sharing because people aren't dividing up cars to rides, not because money is involved. Car2Go/Flexcar are car sharing. Carpooling is ride-sharing.