# Sidecar on The No Agenda Show

Sidecar comes up in 3 chapters across 3 episodes of The No Agenda Show, from May 2013 to January 2016.

- **Chapters:** 3
- **Episodes:** 3
- **Discussed:** May 2013 – January 2016
- **Related topics:** [Hitchhiking](https://search.noagendashow.net/topic/hitchhiking.md), [Austin](https://search.noagendashow.net/topic/austin.md), [General Motors](https://search.noagendashow.net/topic/general-motors.md), [Lyft](https://search.noagendashow.net/topic/lyft.md), [Maven](https://search.noagendashow.net/topic/maven.md), [Protocols](https://search.noagendashow.net/topic/protocols.md), [Ride Sharing](https://search.noagendashow.net/topic/ride-sharing.md), [Sharing Economy](https://search.noagendashow.net/topic/sharing-economy.md), [Uber](https://search.noagendashow.net/topic/uber.md)

## Chapters 1–3 of 3

### GM Maven Ride-Sharing, Lyft Investment and Hitchhiking History

- **Episode:** [793: Divide & Ruin](https://search.noagendashow.net/episode/793-divide-ruin.md)
- **Published:** 2016-01-25
- **Time:** 2:14:24–2:17:37
- **Transcript:** https://search.noagendashow.net/episode/793-divide-ruin/chapter/gm-maven-ride-sharing-lyft-investment-and-hitchhiking-history.md

General Motors launches "Maven," a new ride-sharing and car-sharing service, following a $500 million investment in Lyft. The hosts discuss the decline of personal car ownership among young urban Americans. They compare the modern ride-sharing trend to the hitchhiking culture of the 1970s, characterizing it as a "depression motif" driven by economic necessity.

Keywords: [general motors](https://search.noagendashow.net/topic/general-motors.md), [maven](https://search.noagendashow.net/topic/maven.md), [lyft](https://search.noagendashow.net/topic/lyft.md), [sidecar](https://search.noagendashow.net/topic/sidecar.md), [ride-sharing](https://search.noagendashow.net/topic/ride-sharing.md), [hitchhiking](https://search.noagendashow.net/topic/hitchhiking.md)

### Sidecar App, Modern Hitchhiking and Middlemen

- **Episode:** [533: Clip Show II](https://search.noagendashow.net/episode/533-clip-show-ii.md)
- **Published:** 2013-07-25
- **Time:** 1:33:44–1:36:44
- **Transcript:** https://search.noagendashow.net/episode/533-clip-show-ii/chapter/sidecar-app-modern-hitchhiking-and-middlemen.md

The ride-sharing app Sidecar is discussed as a modern, technology-mediated version of 1970s hitchhiking. The hosts lament that instead of using open protocols for peer-to-peer organization, society relies on corporate middlemen who extract profit from basic human interactions. They argue for a "self-radicalized" approach to community organization.

Keywords: [sidecar](https://search.noagendashow.net/topic/sidecar.md), [uber](https://search.noagendashow.net/topic/uber.md), [hitchhiking](https://search.noagendashow.net/topic/hitchhiking.md), [sharing economy](https://search.noagendashow.net/topic/sharing-economy.md), [protocols](https://search.noagendashow.net/topic/protocols.md), middlemen

### Sidecar App, Peer-to-Peer Transportation Regulation

- **Episode:** [516: 9/11 Generation](https://search.noagendashow.net/episode/516-9-11-generation.md)
- **Published:** 2013-05-26
- **Time:** 52:11–54:38
- **Transcript:** https://search.noagendashow.net/episode/516-9-11-generation/chapter/sidecar-app-peer-to-peer-transportation-regulation.md

The Sidecar app allows private citizens to act as drivers for others, essentially digitizing the 1970s practice of hitchhiking. The hosts argue that the introduction of a corporate middleman to facilitate these interactions complicates a simple peer-to-peer concept. They express frustration with the modern economic system's insistence on inserting profit-seeking entities into basic human cooperation.

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