This seems like a temporary problem. Google is charging what the market will bear and doesn’t have ability to get more cars on the road.
It's obviously a mistake to charge more than Uber or Lyft, it's crazy obvious, like mind meltingly obvious. Sometimes it's just the obvious thing. Google's problem is that its management is so bad, it doesn't understand: just because something happens (paying more for rides) doesn't mean it makes sense. After all taxis are more expensive sometimes, and people pay for them, and where's the article that litigates all the dumb reasons people give for doing that?
see the issue with that assertion?
They are amazingly valuable as a stock, as a business and as a collection of talent. That doesn’t entirely excuse failures of vision and leadership, let alone pricing.
Edit: That said, I am inclined to believe that Alphabet pricing likely better reflects reality. The others have some bad habits.
Talk about overloaded. The two framings I was thinking of was first from an engineering & design perspective, but also second from an alignment perspective.
Some people recoil in horror when they look upon what Elon has done, but what a multinational corporation - one that has become engrained in daily life - can do when aligned to anything but the dollar is astonishing. Ironically it’s not something money can buy.