The difference seems pretty clear: Profit. Uber&#x2F;Lyft drivers aren&#x27;t splitting the cost of gas with riders; they&#x27;re making money from it, as evidenced by the fact that rates change hour by hour with market demand. They can claim they&#x27;re not taxis, but their compensation structure says otherwise.<p>I am not a lawyer, but if Flytenow is truly doing what they say and are facilitating riders and pilots to share cost, then it is hard to argue that it&#x27;s a commercial endeavor because the pilot still loses money; just like I am not a taxi if I drive you down to LA and we split gas-- how we found each other and whether we are strangers seems irrelevant.