Today’s Solutions: April 21, 2026

Lyft just announced it’s hit one million rides a day, a milestone Uber announced in December 2014. As of July 2016, Uber was completing an average of 5.5 million rides a day. Last week, Uber hit 5 billion total completed trips. So, one million rides a day is cool for Lyft, but it’s still nowhere near the number of rides Uber completes on a daily basis. That, of course, could change given the recent messes Uber

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