, Columnist
Uber Really Needs Lyft to Stay in the Rideshare Race
San Francisco’s fiercest startup rivalry is over. But Uber can’t win without its main competitor.
The long-held assumption about Uber Technologies Inc. has been that it would only make real money via one of two routes.
The first is self-driving cars become a reality and there’s no more need to pay human drivers. Well, forget that, ain’t gonna happen — at least not for many years.