I talk ‘car sharing’ on MPR’s Daily Circuit

I talked car sharing earlier this week on Minnesota Public Radio’s The Daily Circuit.

By “car sharing,” I largely mean services like Lyft and UberX that field fleets of citizen drivers. These supply their own wheels to earn extra money.

These services compete with traditional taxi companies, which don’t like them at all.

Cities such as Minneapolis have grappled with these newcomers, as well, sometimes insisting they be regulated like taxi companies. Lyft and UberX have fought this.

Daily Circuit host Tom Weber covered these and related car-sharing topics with me and another guest, Emily Badger, a writer for the Washington Post’s Wonkblog.

Here’s a post I wrote to accompany the broadcast.