Lyft certainly has the option to comply with the law and jack up their prices to compensate. There are probably fewer "frivolous" reasons to use ride-sharing at the moment anyway and a decent percentage of that class of urbanites aren't all that price sensitive.

> Lyft certainly has the option to comply with the law and jack up their prices to compensate

They also have the option, if they can find the financing, to comply with the law and burn money building an entrnched user base before jacking up prices to compensate.

I mean, even on the old model, that's how Uber got itself entrenched and hard to displace.

Exactly, what the grandparent post suggests would be a really bad business move and is unlikely.