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Uber and Lyft admit they're making city traffic worse
Uber and Lyft may be competitors but as the two major ridesharing companies, they also have a lot in common -- including the challenges they face. To better understand their role in city traffic patterns, the companies jointly sponsored a study to determine their combined vehicle miles traveled (VMT) in six key cities. In a surprising twist, the results got Uber to admit that ridesharing companies, or transportation network companies (TNCs), do in fact contribute to congestion.
"The research shows that despite tremendous growth over the past decade, TNC use still pales in comparison to all other traffic, and although TNCs are likely contributing to an increase in congestion, its scale is dwarfed by that of private cars and commercial traffic," Chris Pangilinan, Uber's Head of Global Policy for Public Transportation, wrote in a blog post.
The study, conducted by Fehr & Peers, looked at Uber and Lyft trips in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle and Washington DC. In San Francisco County, Uber and Lyft were responsible for 13.4 percent of all VMT. In Boston, they accounted for eight percent, and in Washington, DC they represent 7.2 percent of vehicle-miles. Just over half of those miles (54 to 62 percent) were spent actually driving a passenger.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 08 2019, @04:50PM (2 children)
Please move to China.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by ikanreed on Thursday August 08 2019, @05:33PM (1 child)
It's a nice place to visit, but I'd rather fix the problems we have here, caused by you, anonymous website user, being fucking stupid, than fix they have there, caused by different people being pretty dumb in different ways.
Me: Hey look, this other country does a specific thing better and it works way better than an awful we've created through flawed ideology, wouldn't it be great if we incorporated good ideas that work and skipped the ones that don't?
You: I hate america too much for that.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday August 09 2019, @03:11AM
For this particular story, what specific thing were you thinking of? All I got from previous posts was something about ending traffic and suburbs, which doesn't sound that good to me.