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We have a triumph of human progress in not just the Internet, but the Web that rides above it.

In many ways, this squares with my experience (~6k rides on lyft, San Diego, San Francisco)....

They wanted $28 plus $10/person, which worked out to quite a bit cheaper than four Uber rides (two each way).

Although ill tell you this, as someone who rides a motorcycle in the only state in the US where its lawful.

You're ignoring the pooling savings which come from being able to easily coordinate shared rides due to a huge installed rider base.

I've had a few rides where the driver took a non-optimal route and Uber refunded credits each time.

They think they should be able to give people rides and so on.

Not as often in the SF area, but in SD, a large chunk of my rides were driving people who were down and out.

If Uber gets me 3 rides/hour and Lyft gets me 2, I drive with Uber.

Cab rides are already tracked, so there would just need to be a way of notifying the drivers of the current fee for taking a fare.

I'm more intrigued by what (if anything) happens to the Uber drivers that venture to pick up rides where apparently taxis dare not.

No, uber offers commercial insurance for all rides.

"That 1 train is always busy" As someone who rides the train I can tell you that you are very, very wrong.

Remember in Braveheart where Mel WahtsHisFAce rides in front of the soldiers waiting to go into battle to establish yet another monarchy, "What will you do without freedom?" That's a great summation of Americans arguing about freedom during an election cycle.

One of the reason Uber is such a great business is that they have extraordinarily high retention numbers, both in terms of "percent of riders who will ride again in X time period" and in "number of rides they'll take on average in X time period."