The reason that I think the author is not using &quot;ride sharing app&quot; in your sense is that the author concludes that such apps will not pencil out to cash on cash returns attractive to Valley Venture Capital. If we assume that the author has at least half a clue, then the author could not reasonably be assumed to include Uber or Lyft type apps in their definition of &quot;ride sharing app&quot;.<p>If the author is without a clue, then probably the article should be flagged.