90 seconds: 4 stories you shouldn't miss Your Basic Guide to EarthquakesThe feature is available only with classic Lyft rides, Lyft Plus (which has larger vehicles) and Lyft Premier (which has high-end vehicles). It is not available on Lyft Line, in which the company’s algorithm creates carpools by matching passengers headed in the same direction. In another move to encourage people to carpool, Lyft added a feature to its ride-hailing app Monday that will let passengers add a stop along the way to their final destination. The feature, which will be tested with select Lyft users before a nationwide rollout, is the first of its kind on a major ride-hailing platform. See the most-read stories in Business this hour >>A Lyft spokesman said about 5% of trips currently involve passengers manually updating the destination after the first drop off, which represents hundreds of thousands of rides each month.

Source: Los Angeles Times August 08, 2016 17:47 UTC