[hakfoo]

1 and 2 are not directly features from a rider perspective, and arguably not even from a driver's perspective.

They're trying to obfuscate and gamify the economics enough to disguise that they simply don't work out long-term for many drivers.

There are probably other models, many of which require much less complexity. Imagine a scheme with drivers on flat salaries, rather than trying to tweak exactly how much you have to pay for the 10 minute drive to compensate for 45 minutes of travel to and from the trip endpoints and sitting idle waiting for a summon.

3 is an extremely marginal feature. I need a Lyft in Chicago when I visit once or twice a year; I could equally use Happy Shiny Chicago Rideshare Ltd, and the fact they have no service in my hometown is rather immaterial. Maybe they could go for a co-op sort of concept-- regional operators who contribute towards shared marketing and development budgets.