All you need to do is find a way of getting people in touch with you for your service. Mainly the reason I hate these companies is because they do provide a valuable service for the drivers in that they have a system to get the people who need a ride connected with the people who give rides; but they demand too much of the profit for what work they actually provide. The ones doing the real work get peanuts and the tool provider is taking in the big bucks.
Killing the Middlemen in the Rideshare Industry
Submitted 7 months ago by psychothumbs@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/killing-the-middlemen-in-the-rideshare
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Kolanaki@yiffit.net 6 months ago
TheFriar@lemm.ee 6 months ago
I mean, I’m sure we could get a non-profit started that offers the exact same service. Just get drivers to take on the responsibility of covering any accidents, etc. It could run on donations like Wikipedia. The drivers get 100% of the profits…I’m sure there’s be unforeseen snags, but I really wish we could start “disrupting” industries by literally taking these tech fucks’ share of the market and redistribute that shit to drivers.
Rides would probably be cheaper, no surge pricing, and a good ol’ stick in the eye of the tech industry.
Maggoty@lemmy.world 6 months ago
The insurance is part of why it works. I looked up commercial insurance rates for a taxi and it’s like $2,000 every six months. And while that’s doable if rates are the same or only a little lower it’s still one hell of a gut check. Because you don’t know if you’re going to get customers. Uber and Lyft absorbed that risk.
So what’s likely to happen in the near future is uninsured or under insured open source ride-sharing that will need to crown a winning app or two before it gets predictable enough for people to pay that.
And that means it also needs to survive that stage with Uber and Lyft strongly messaging normal people about safety and quality concerns.
EatATaco@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Holy shit, why not just read the article? This is exactly what the interview is about.
Why do people read the comments, but not the articles? I don’t get it.
SuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
I do t get what happens in the backend, but you I can’t convince me that these companies should be multi-billion dollar companies.
NeptuneOrbit@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Cities should socialize ride shares, delivery shares, bike/scooter shares.
Sure some guy invented an app to make them all slightly easier, and he made a ton a money. Cool. Good for him. Time to make the technology work for people.
wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
I think Berlin did that with MyTaxi
linkhidalgogato@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
cities should socialize. the rest of the comment is unnecessary actually so is cities everything should socialize everything
Rottcodd@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Best of luck to them.
It’s true in essentially all industries, but it’s especially obvious in rideshare that there’s a layer of parasites who get paid far too much money for nothing beyond the fact that they won the fight for the position of “parasite who gets paid far too much money for doing nothing.”
Anything that might even just decrease the number of overpaid parasites would be a benefit not just to the concerned industry, but to society as a whole.
roofuskit@lemmy.world 6 months ago
They’re just taking their cut for figuring out how to avoid labor laws.
Wappen@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I bet what they all have in common is that they all used advertising in order to get to their position.
psilotop@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Am I crazy or is everyone just describing car service? Lots of major cities have private storefronts with a group of drivers and a single person that answers the phones.
The only thing those businesses were ever missing was a good online presence and/or a smartphone app.
EatATaco@lemm.ee 6 months ago
The only thing those businesses were ever missing was a good online presence and/or a smartphone app.
Which is, of course, no small thing and the thing that makes uber/lyft thousands of times better than the car service model.
psilotop@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I disagree with this. Uber and Lyft just did it at scale. My local car service can make a website with payment processing without knowing any coding. They don’t need a full service app with a global presence. It’s not trivial but totally doable.
PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 6 months ago
The tech subs discover taxis
EatATaco@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Kind of a dumb point. I suspect you didn’t really have much experience using taxis pre-uber. This is all about trying to replace the uber/lyft model with a similar thing, but where most of the profits go to the drivers and not uber/lyft.
nucleative@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I wonder if a P2P ride-sharing system could be made to work. Or if it would be rife with scams and dangers.
Asudox@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Anything is bad. Just like how Uber is shit today, P2P won’t be any different. A system where everyone can advertise themselves as a taxi is unnecessarily dangerous. Just use regular normal taxi. Anyone can become a taxi in that system, and that’s bad.
catloaf@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Considering Uber is already pretty bad, take a guess.
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Idk, considering everyone’s parents said never to get into a car with a stranger and they have like somewhere close to six sigma error levels in safety, it seems more safe than people would assume. Considering the rumor is you need almost no background check to do it.
7heo@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
Fuck yea!
Wanderer@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Really excited for Waymo to change the world.
Going to free up so much labour. Although I haven’t had too many issues with Uber, taxi drivers can be an absolute disgrace can’t wait for a few of those people to be out of a job where they exploit people.
db2@lemmy.world 7 months ago
The middle men are everyone but the driver and passenger though
psychothumbs@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Yeah exactly - the proposal here is to have a driver-owned worker cooperative run the app.
wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
I present to you: eva.coop
pennomi@lemmy.world 7 months ago
That’s a great idea, if someone can bring the software and enough advertising to make it successful. It’s really hard but possible.