The whole business model seems dumb, and based on VC guys willing to burn money. Lime was in my city with bicycles, and it seemed like everyone loved the service. But at $1 for 30 minutes, how do they ever recoup the cost of the bikes and the team to maintain them? I knew there was something wrong when I saw the…

This was a terrible episode, aside from McKinnon’s Loughlin impression and Stone’s actress in a gay porn. Otherwise it was unfunny. When you have to name check every person you are portraying so the audience can get the jokes, you’re in trouble. And 2 different bits about places to go in the same Weekend Update? Do…

Perhaps once Uber and Lyft are both public companies and have profit pressure they will stop subsidizing trips “50% off your next 10 trips!” and let the market find its natural equilibrium. Both companies are spending billions to juice ridership counts but are just devaluing the service and creating the illusion of a…

A couple years ago my GMC pickup spontaneously started blasting an advetisement for OnStar from the stereo. There was no way to shut it up, I had to sit there and listen

Advertising on the screen isn’t going to work until driverless cars arrive. Unless they plan to take over the screen at stoplights.

I couldn’t even make it through the 16 minute seven season recap on YouTube, so I’m more than ready for everyone else to stop the Game of Thrones nonsense.

As the original highway system ages out, it is more likely that these elevated highways get replaced with surface highways or below grade highways. Huge projects like the tunnels in Boston and Seattle aren’t going to happen in most places, and with the suburbs built up around the cities, opportunities to replace…

There are a lot of “protected class” these days. Fat people can infringe on your personal space on an airplane, and scared people can bring their weird emotional support animals onto planes. As an Uber driver, I have to allow service animals, and the law doesn’t care if I’m afraid or allergic - the passenger’s rights…

It’s not a “white” thing when the newly elected black mayor is questioning this as well. I don’t think he needed to go to jail, but they at least needed an admission of guilt and repayment of the investigation costs. That would have been enough. As it sits now he gets to continue going out in public acting innocent.

It’s not a commission, it is likely a loan origination fee the bank is charging the dealer for your loan, so the dealer is trying to pass that along to you in the form of a higher selling price.

Shotgunning is bad because the bank can’t later offer you a different approval at a different dealer than the one they first offered, so if a dealer “shotguns” you and gets you a bunch of declines or bad approvals, going to a different dealer and trying to start over is harder unless the deal is very different than at…

25%?? Ha! That was the old days. Last year Uber took 41% of the fares I generated. In 2017 it was 37%.

I think part of the problem is that Uber and Lyft, partly due to competition and partly due to a corporate desire to show ridership gains, kept devaluing the rideshare experience. Through price cuts and promotions, they brought the price of a trip so low that it became a viable (though still more expensive)…

The problem is is that even getting to $35k after expenses would require working 50-60 hours a week in most markets. Last year I generated about $50k in fares working 35-40 hours a week, but after giving Uber 41% of it for their service fees, and subtracting gas, I was left with about $27k, from which I subtracted my…

Most ride share drivers work both Uber and Lyft, and combined end up working full time. 

But this will also take the pressure off reforming the MTAs expenses, and off reforming how expensive road repairs are due to union rules, graft, etc. Just more money in the til to slosh around for all the stakeholders who aren’t the drivers paying for it.

Yes, this!! That 2JZ looked around and just said “Nope! I’d rather die in fire than move a BMW.”

This would have happened if Toyota had built it’s own car instead of farming it out to BMW. NO Supra fanboy wants to be running a BMW engine.

Is it me or do the goalposts for all these EVs keep moving? All of these automakers are promising dozens of new EVs, but they all seem to be 2 years out every time there’s an announcement. Yet nothing ever comes.

Yes, and Asian students are finally standing up against the higher standards they are judged by in the acceptance process compared to other races.