Any by dodge, you mean “never be really investigated for”.

Who would be impressed in the slightest by a “former” hooker brought to America illegally who is our current Scumbag in Chief’s “trophy” wife.

Dollars, Euros, Pounds and Rubles.  

Not workable because cut-over lag is so problematic.  Driver assist should focus on alerting and intervening when a critical failure it detected, not on offloading tedious driving that can turn ugly very quickly.

Probably because when men do it, they usually are committing rape, not just pantsing (although KP is still a piece of shit for doing it).

Wow so many inaccuracies and logical fallacies in two sentences.  I hope you are not a voter.

LOL as though taxi medallions were ever fair.

They are losing money because they are subsidizing driver payouts to keep liquidity high during the market development phase of their life cycle.

Parasite requires involuntary injury to the host, which here would be VCs, but they can’t be hosts, as they are voluntarily funding the companies.

Correct.  If you contract with a programmer do provide you with code, you can pay them whatever you agree, say $100, even if they have to work 200 hours to produce said code.  That’s what a fucking contractor means.

And also throw in that uber/lyft still skew towards a younger customer base, which will mature and keep using the services.  As the olds die off, this means uber/lyft’s market share will naturally increase.

No according to anyone that knows anything, once you have a sustainable global market share, prices stabilize and subsidies are reduced.  This is not “price gouging” which you can easily verify by looking up what that term means.

Exactly, any idiot should understand this.  You look at last month’s income from Uber and if it is too low, you will stop.  This isn’t even a topic up for debate.  The old school Uber drivers are pissed because their incomes have fallen due to new supply, but they were never promised a full time *job*.

They are not ignoring laws, the laws support their treatment of drivers as contractors.  Congress is free to pass a law banning contractors, but this would have wide ranging impacts on the economy.  It would make zero sense for Congress to alter the laws around contracting solely to hurt Lyft and Uber.

they are ride hailing platforms, WTF??? a cabbie can just dial in to them...the main issue is ride liquidity versus driver profit which may be intractable.  also, AV tech is decades from being viable, and when it hits, it will fully kill taxi companies, but even uber and lyft will have issues adapting.

Uber/Lyft are the napster of transportation, but I didn’t hear hipsters ripping napster apart because it was a parasite on the record labels.

They aren’t parasites even if you don’t like them.  And even if they were parasites, the taxi companies aren’t the host.

Any startup would die if investors stop investing.

Do you even know what parasitic means?

I don’t think the end of our environment takes a back seat to some less than perfect attempts to reduce the damage.  Also, much like the health care problems in the US, cap and trade problems were caused by republicans (who refused to consider more direct measures).