Lyft’s head of product for autonomous driving, Taggart Matthiesen has stated in an interview on Converge (podcast on The Verge) that Lyft is considering offering ‘Zen Mode’. Zen mode is basically just code word for telling the driver you’re not interested in talking for whatever reason. Unfortunately it doesn’t seem like something Lyft plans to roll out anytime soon:
I think it’s interesting. At some point, we may play around with that idea, but that’s unfortunately not a feature at this point.
I want something like this badly. Sometimes I want to talk to my driver, sometimes I haven’t slept for 36 hours or need to answer some e-mails on my phone. I’d also like drivers to have the same option (e.g maybe they can toggle something and would only connect with other riders that either wanted zen mode or didn’t care). Lyft needs to stop considering this option and just do it already. Whatever ride sharing service does this first will have my business whenever I don’t want to talk.
Hat tip to TPG
