By Siddharth Singh, 17th February, 2016
Travis Kalanick, the CEO of Uber brought to light an interesting fact. Back in 1914, someone started a ridesharing service that closely resembles Uber today – and it got so popular that it had as many daily rides as Uber does in Las Angeles today, in 2016! He said,
In 1914, an enterprising LA man grew tired of long trolley lines and simply put a sign on his car advertising five cent rides. It exploded. As difficult as it is to believe, Uber does as many rides in LA per day in 2016 as the jitney did in 1915, Kalanick said.
Clearly it was something people really wanted, but the jitney wouldn’t last. The urban transportation monopoly at the time was the trolley industry. Trolley owners and operators hated jitneys, and they lobbied across the country to slow down the spread of the service. Although LA’s nascent jitney service…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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