Nothing reminds me how out of loop the Hacker News and Silicone Valley is from the rest of the America like an Uber post. It always degrades into an anecdotal competition on who had the worst experience with Uber and how amazing Lyft has been. The fact that they are growing 38% in a quarter at their scale and we're calling that 'slow' is pretty nuts.

Personally I've had good and bad experiences with both, but almost everyone of my friends outside of tech uses Uber exclusively and love it. Can't wait to see how the race to a better self driving experience goes.