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Hmm, is all you need is a pink-tinged blog post on long term climate goals to PR your way into convincing the world you aren't harming it?? It's pretty obvious
by b1gnasty 9y ago
Hmm, is all you need is a pink-tinged blog post on long term climate goals to PR your way into convincing the world you aren't harming it?? It's pretty obvious that the current so-called "ridesharing" product is increasing CO2 emissions. But good on you Lyft for embracing that good-guy-stance. Keep it up
- Ductapemaster 9y agoWhat about ridesharing is "obviously" increasing emissions? I don't dispute the fact, but what evidence is this based on?
- thesmallestcat 9y agoRidesharing companies compete with mass transit.
- inimino 9y agoAnd with individual car ownership.
- danjoc 9y agoDidn'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 9y agoDon't worry, Lyft Line definitely exists. I don't know what kind of crime being a passenger in one would result in though.
- danjoc 9y agoWho says you have to be in the car? http://www.businessinsider.com/uber-soon-able-to-track-your-location-even-when-app-is-closed-and-gps-turned-off-2015-6 http://www.businessinsider.com/uber-soon-able-to-track-your-... Or did they roll that "feature" back?
- astrange 9y agohttps://www.macrumors.com/2017/06/07/ios-11-restrict-location-services-any-app/ 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 9y agoFalse 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-million-writes-per-second-using-mesos-and.html http://highscalability.com/blog/2016/9/28/how-uber-manages-a...