Lyft’s app now permits you to request a tow truck and schedule upkeep

Lyft’s app is now extra helpful for caring for your personal automobile, not simply hailing a journey in another person’s. You now have entry to a trio of upkeep and parking options within the US by way of a devoted app part. You may ask for twenty-four/7 roadside help by way of Agero, together with tow vehicles. SpotHero now helps you reserve parking. And should you want a restore or tune-up, you’ll be able to quickly guide automobile upkeep at Goodyear Auto facilities.

Not surprisingly, Lyft is providing some incentives to Pink subscribers. A membership covers 4 roadside assist “occasions” per yr, and Goodyear’s companies are 15 p.c off. Many of the options can be found nationwide, though you’ll be able to’t get roadside assist in Nevada. Parking companies are solely out there in 30 cities, together with Chicago, Denver, New York Metropolis and San Francisco, though Lyft says extra areas are “coming quickly.”

It is not onerous to see the technique behind these additions. On high of boosting Pink subscriptions, this might hold you in Lyft’s ecosystem even when you’ve got no want for journey hailing, bikes or scooters. The corporate may help you thru “all phases” of your life, as fleet head Jody Kelman explains. Nonetheless, you won’t thoughts should you’re prepared to commerce flexibility in suppliers for the comfort of reserving all of your automobile companies in a single app.

This may additionally characterize slight aggressive benefit over foremost rival Uber, whose app nonetheless revolves round on-demand rides. In principle, you may follow Lyft just because it addresses extra of your transportation wants.

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