Lyft IPO

[SpursforSix]

I already did, head. I clearly corrected and posted an article that said 95% of bovine methane came from belches and 5% came from farts. But keep clinging to your pathetic fart schtick.

[Millennial_Messiah]

Prices per mile to riders needs to go WAY up before either Lyft/Uber become profitable. Taxi rides aren't cheap. There is a reason for that.

Correct. People need to get their own car tbh or just use mass transit. Uber, Lyft, and the rest of their kind are going to go out of business in the next several years. There will still be yellow taxis, but like you said they aren't cheap.

[phxspurfan]

Yeah, like I can't afford those other places, Mr. Big Time

Driving/Parking downtown in a 26 foot long pickup is just a pain in the ass.

Just park across 3 spaces like the typical truck driver

[Millennial_Messiah]

Seems like I was making more way back delivering pizzas than these people make driving Uber/Lyft. It was minimum wage plus a buck per delivery plus tips. I think it was about 3 deliveries an hour on weekend nights.

And I'd rather have pizza smell in my car than cleaning up backseat drunk puke at 3am

The best thing to do is never use your own car for any deliveries, rideshares etc. Use a company rental or just rent a car.

[Millennial_Messiah]

I’m with you completely. Lyft and Uber are basically fighting with each other in a race to the bottom. Even at 80 cents on the mile it’s a money losing proposition, the mileage reimbursement you’d get in a normal job is I believe around 55 cents a mile, and the extra 25 cents (especially in ing LA where the traffic is a nightmare and there’s a high cost of living) isn’t enough to compensate you for your time.

The drivers are largely shmucks who don’t understand the real cost of driving.

IMO they should just charge more and not have tipping, I hate the fact that tips are now expected. I can only speak for myself but the reason I use Uber/Lyft over taxis is purely for convenience and not because it’s cheaper. When I’m drunk and trying to get back to my apartment at 1:30 in the morning I could give a about the cost.

Just drive home or get a friend/family member to pick you up if you're way too drunk. Your bank account will thank you later.

[Nbadan]

Correct. People need to get their own car tbh or just use mass transit. Uber, Lyft, and the rest of their kind are going to go out of business in the next several years. There will still be yellow taxis, but like you said they aren't cheap.

I think Uber/Lyft plan all along was to drive taxi companies out of business and then raise prices when riders have no other choices.

[SpursforSix]

Just drive home or get a friend/family member to pick you up if you're way too drunk. Your bank account will thank you later.

Some chick just got murdered getting into some dude's car who she thought was her Uber driver. In Dallas I think.
From what it looks like, the dude pulled up and waited like he was the actual driver.

[Blake]

The best thing to do is never use your own car for any deliveries, rideshares etc. Use a company rental or just rent a car.

A rent a car for pizza delivery?

[Millennial_Messiah]

A rent a car for pizza delivery?

Pizza delivery driver is a Top 5 worst job, easily. Haven't you seen all the true stories about it on Youtube and the like?

I don't recommend that ty job to anyone. For the customers, just ing drive there you lazy bums.

[Will Hunting]

Just drive home or get a friend/family member to pick you up if you're way too drunk. Your bank account will thank you later.

you’re one low rent mother er

[boutons_deux]

I think Uber/Lyft plan all along was to drive taxi companies out of business and then raise prices when riders have no other choices.

no uber's plan was to price so low to preclude compe ion

when lyft got going, uber dirty tricked them in NYC

[Blake]

Pizza delivery driver is a Top 5 worst job, easily. Haven't you seen all the true stories about it on Youtube and the like?

I don't recommend that ty job to anyone. For the customers, just ing drive there you lazy bums.

You're moving the gp. You said "the best thing to do for deliveries is to rent a car"

[Millennial_Messiah]

you’re one low rent mother er

I go around masquerading as someone low middle class so I'm not a target for theft.

[Millennial_Messiah]

You're moving the gp. You said "the best thing to do for deliveries is to rent a car"

Find a pizza chain that will let you use their delivery vehicle, or don't take that ty job. Never, ever, use your own car for a ty low wage job.

[Blake]

Find a pizza chain that will let you use their delivery vehicle, or don't take that ty job. Never, ever, use your own car for a ty low wage job.

You said "just rent a car"

For pizza delivery

[DMC]

I go around masquerading as someone low middle class so I'm not a target for theft.

Works well, I am convinced.

[DMC]

You said "just rent a car"

For pizza delivery

You're delivering pizzas for a living? No wonder the found another set of balls to ride.

[Millennial_Messiah]

Works well, I am convinced.

I suppose I'm the an hesis of the hood s that buy a shiny BMW with lit up wheels after they get their first score from a drug deal.

You're delivering pizzas for a living? No wonder the found another set of balls to ride.

Yup

[DMC]

I suppose I'm the an hesis of the hood s that buy a shiny BMW with lit up wheels after they get their first score from a drug deal.



Yup

If their first drug score nets them money to buy a BMW with custom wheels, that's one of a start.

[Blake]

You're delivering pizzas for a living? No wonder the found another set of balls to ride.

This is why you get on in so many threads. Your reading comprehension blows.

[Millennial_Messiah]

If their first drug score nets them money to buy a BMW with custom wheels, that's one of a start.

Okay then, maybe their first month of drug scores. Before their over-the-top Christian, Aretha-grooving parents kick them out of the house for being a hood .

[BD24]

I go around masquerading as someone low middle class so I'm not a target for theft.

Masquerading
Andy pretending he doesn’t make 12 an hour at BB&B

[Millennial_Messiah]

Masquerading
Andy pretending he doesn’t make 12 an hour at BB&B

That joke is funny to me because it's so not true. Keep dreaming. I made $11 an hour as a dishwasher in the summer of 2011 at the same time I was making $9 an hour at Starbucks. So there's that.

[RandomGuy]

I think expectations surrounding driverless cars is somewhere in there, but both Uber and Lyft's burn rates are still pretty alarming after all this time. It's never going to get better for the drivers.

Agreed. At some point they will have gone through everyone that is stupid enough to sign up, but smart enough not to stay. THere aren't enough idiots out therre for their business model to be sustainable.

[DarrinS]

driverless cars, tbh. I work in the AI space. It ain't ready.