Uber and Lyft are both heading towards a future in which they’ll handle every conceivable way to get you from Point A to Point B — and in the process disrupt the very concept of personal car ownership.
Both ride-hailing companies have joined the many firms ready to release electric scooters, launch electric-bike rental services, provide rentals of people’s personal cars and use an app that will let users buy public transit tickets.
“Not many people in our country take bikes and scooters for utilitarian trips, for going to work, the grocery store, out at night even though it’s a low-cost healthy way to get around,” said Paul Mackie, director of research and communications at the Mobility Labs think tank. “It’s great that Uber and Lyft are putting money and publicity and building interest in these other great ways to travel. It lends credence to them as mobility companies, not just tech companies.”
Read the article at the San Francisco Chronicle.
