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Perfect way to eliminate the competition via regulatory lock out

It's not really sharing anyway.

Yeah, the term really got me when I first heard about Uber... my thoughts was it was more like a near-demand carpool service to pull together extra passengers for where you were going anyway (for a small fee). Reality it's more like a Taxi service with private vehicles.

Still wouldn't mind seeing another ride share app with carpooling as the focus.

Waze Carpool

Yes, calling it "ride-sharing" has always been disingenuous at best. I suspect the idea was to make it sound more small-scale and personal, less formal and commercial, so that people wouldn't feel it needs regulation or oversight as much as a commercial transportation service.

No, AB5 simply requires that they compete fairly with all other transit systems that recognize their employees as employees.

The reality is that all these “gig economy” companies are only able to compete by unfairly claiming that their employees are somehow not their employees.

They're not even able to compete. Neither Uber nor Lyft are profitable.

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