How Airbnb and Lyft Finally Got Americans to Trust Each Other
From Airbnb to Lyft to Tinder, the sharing economy is rewiring the way we interact with each other.
In about 40 minutes, Cindy Manit will let a complete stranger into her car. An app on her windshield-mounted iPhone will summon her to a corner in San Francisco’s South of Market neighborhood, where a russet-haired woman in an orange raincoat and coffee-colored boots will slip into the front seat of her immaculate 2006 Mazda3 hatchback and ask for a ride to the airport. Manit has picked up hundreds of random people like this. Once she took a fare all the way across the Golden Gate Bridge to Sausalito. Another time she drove a clown to a Cirque du Soleil after-party.
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Wired
Published: Apr 23, 2014
Length: 15 minutes (3,980 words)