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The difference is that carpooling is legal. What Uber and Lyft are doing is not in most markets.



What relevance does this have to the parent, or my, comment?


The relevance is that a $5.9b valuation is dubious when it's based on an illegal enterprise. That "value" can disappear in an instant when municipalities start cracking down.




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