Rideshare services - Uber, Lyft, Hailo, etc.

"stop drinking and buy a car"

Awesome, excellent advice. Problem solved.

oh, i've done neither. i'm just saying that uber isn't likely to be a long-term solution

its 'massive success' is only because unsustainably low costs are being propped up by venture capital

This is something I only discovered recently and this is pretty key. The dotcom crash happened for shit like this. Have techbros learned nothing?

I at least see it as something to kickstart a change in a system that's total fucking garbage in a lot of cities. I'm not championing how they operate, but having things like ordering a car on an app and seeing their ETA are enough for me. I guess some cabs are doing that now, but not here.

xp

tbh cab companies here have had apps for some years but yeah I see the diff is big city v towns

I mean Baltimore isn't necessarily a small town, but...

If there's a functional alternative here, anyone, let me know.

heh https://danielcompton.net/2017/03/14/uber-bombshell

below a surge factor of ~1.5 uber is significantly cheaper here (montreal), there's also no alternative (Lyft or Juno) here yet, so I use cabs when uber is over 1.5, which is about half the time.

so is there any way Levandowski could be facing criminal charges? What a dumb mess to get yourself into, if all that stuff in the filing is true.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C7DfFtXV0AAlhsN.jpg

i worked at a call centre for a bank when i was younger and literally anything under 5 stars in all the categories that you were asked about was basically a blemish on your record and reduced your bonus

if you were getting 3 stars or whatevs consistently you would be fired

i never got an uber driver that was less than a 4, but almost always aimed for a 5

yeah once I learned there was a threshold they couldn't fall below I gave all 5s. only person I gave a 4 was a dude who called another driver a "bitch" loudly

Oops

https://twitter.com/NickMiller510/status/843880062197800961

SF Biz Times reporting that Uber pulling out of Oakland, will only house 200-300 workers, instead of proposed 3,000

Further from him:

Fewer than 10 percent of Uber's 3,650 employees will move to Oakland when Uptown HQ opens....BART board planned to hear proposal on special station under Uber HQ on April 13 ... wonder if that's now off?

It had better be off.

also the #2 quit yesterday

https://twitter.com/Kantrowitz/status/845654077904084994

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C7xdq4ZVUAA_yeR.jpg:large

Freefall

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C8ByUW_UwAA_zhv.jpg:small

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C8ByUXAVsAAS1mk.jpg:small

excuse me while i puke up my entire body

what fresh hell is this

everyone namedrops Lyft on twitter now

jewbers wtf

I don't understand what 'Uberettos' is trying to mean

ya

is it like ghettos? but what wld the other one mean?

it sounds a little like a chuck tingle tweet

this?

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=uber%20jewber

Uber closes down in Denmark, due to a law put forth by our ultra-libertarian transport minister. I'm not entirely sure I understand why, but there's a lot of schadenfreude going around.

http://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Suicide-of-an-Uber-engineer-widow-blames-job-11095807.php

https://www.buzzfeed.com/priya/drivers-in-nyc-feel-cheated-by-juno-which-promised-to-save?utm_term=.hbRv661X6#.lmqKoomRo

tht's a shitty story about the guy who killed himself, but that probably could have happened at any number of companies in the bay area these days. being trapped by your pay is a pretty common feeling.

and it sounds like a lot of money but factor in a house and a family and it's really not.

https://www.recode.net/2017/5/1/15498026/uber-travis-kalanick-arianna-huffington-code-conference
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/01/uber-pittsburgh-city-mayors-237772

couldn't be happening to a nicer bunch of lads

this gonna be good https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/12/technology/uber-waymo-judge-denies-arbitration.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share

yes, uber is having an all hands right now and leaking like a sieve. at least 20 terminations as a result of an internal investigation.

— ಠ_ಠ (@MikeIsaac) June 6, 2017

Aw, so sad

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/travis-kalanick-leave-uber_us_58b86704e4b0a8ded67b476c

My favorite detail so far

omg. Uber's "War Room" is being renamed the "Peace Room" https://t.co/nvBj8G3K4f pic.twitter.com/APZ75jIIzV

— Ellen Huet (@ellenhuet) June 13, 2017

Liane Hornsey, HR chief, asks everyone in the room to stand up and give each other a hug. Not kidding.

— ಠ_ಠ (@MikeIsaac) June 13, 2017

chaste, christian side-hugs I assume

jfc this company

So... This just happened at @Uber's all-hands meeting. @YahooFinance's @JPManga got some leaked audio. 6:40 min https://t.co/QHXOp7TU0h pic.twitter.com/bqBLonNp49

— Julia La Roche (@SallyPancakes) June 13, 2017

there it is: kalanick resigns

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/21/technology/uber-ceo-travis-kalanick.html

Also tipping coming to Uber.

that'll be their excuse for not paying drivers at all

I mean maybe if 20 of their high level bros and the CEO leave the company might change culture a little bit but the business model isn't any less fucked

Last month I was reeling that Comey is 6'8. That's over. I'm now consumed with this. Consumed pic.twitter.com/32juOosxim

— Jenn (@jenndangerous) June 21, 2017

omfg

honest question for the "Uber's business model is unsustainable" crowd: what made taxis sustainable?

in most of the world outside the US, uber is significantly cheaper than taxis. that's subsidized by VCs.

is it? iirc there was an error in the widely-cited naked capitalism blog / Isabella Kaminska FT posts that claimed that

what happens in the us? They just lose money?

also subsidized by vc's doesn't imply unsustainable. sometimes things are subsidized by VCs until they are not