Lyft seems like a great candidate for Tesla to acquire and eventually replace with their autonomous fleet. But Elon is busy winning the culture wars atm.
There's little reason currently to think that fully autonomous vehicles are just around the corner, and even less reason to think that Tesla will be the company that gets there first, given the lack of LiDAR on Teslas. Musk's twitter gambit is focusing on the real engine of his wealth, public relations.
Indeed, meant to say he should acquire this if he's at all serious about the autonomous/robo taxi thing becoming a reality but we all know it's hot-air for the foreseeable future. But kind of the premise based on which these companies thought their unit economics would eventually work out.
Why would they spend billions on buying a taxi app? If they had an autonomous fleet (which they obviously won’t for a very long time), they could just build an app for that? That seems like a much smaller problem to solve than autonomous driving.