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Old Jan 5, 2016 | 9:58 am
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Originally Posted by IceTrojan
Talked to a friend who's a driver for both Lyft and Uber; he said it was a cluster. He went to check out the holding area, and it was just a sea of Lyft drivers hanging out; supposedly when their GPS says they're in the LAX geofence, they get added to a queue, and they basically hope they get a long-distance trip to make it worth it. Pretty much like a taxi rank/pen, just with personal cars and pink mustaches.

He left.
So they'll love us. I will check out Lyft. I was misinterpreting their coverage map, they have one for LA and another for Long Beach, and another for Newport Beach, and so on. It does look like they are a bit cheaper than Uber.
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