Luxe a Year Later
medium.comThe number of times I've felt threatened by a Luxe driver behind the wheel in SF is unacceptable. I've seen them do burnouts in customer cars, drive aggressively through parking decks (including the one that I pay $275/month for a privilege of parking a car in), and generally be poor members of the community. Not to mention packs of them on scooters on sidewalks.
That's the dirty secret with these on-demand service apps: they're not members of the community. Why should they care? Are they getting paid better? Are they living in those nice places with those nice cars?
Oh, I'm well aware of that. It's a fictitious narrative that's spun, for sure.
I'm honestly more interested that no one from Luxe came in here to defend them against my comment, given that the OP has precisely two submissions to their username - both of which are this exact same article.
Nothing that Luxe is doing is actually contributing to the cities in which they operate. Quite the contrary, they're facilitating the use of singular private transit where there generally isn't a compelling use case without their service. I'd be happy to see them vanish.
Does anyone know what the real unit economics look like for this business? My guess is mediocre.
You hope, one of the areas where technology really solves the problem, through the self driving cars. But there is still some time for that as it seems.
Shaping the future of cities? oh my