Brian Roberts
Analyst · RBC Capital Markets. Your question please
Sure. So this is Brian. So let me start with the insurance question. I mean, this year, we have been investing in our risk solutions team. And we're leveraging their technical skills and experience that just make better operational product changes, really informed by billions of miles of data to reduce the frequency of accidents on the Lyft platform. So as I mentioned, we now expect the cost of insurance required for ride sharing will be lower in the fourth quarter than the third quarter. And it's one of the key reasons why we're now increasing our contribution margin targets of 52%, which is up 3 percentage points from our prior guidance. Let me just give you a couple of examples, and then I'll move to your pricing question. We are increasing investments in proprietary telematics to monitor driving behavior, like speeding and heartbreaking and just other driving habits that indeed indicate riskier behavior. Obviously, safety is just so important to us and just the overall Lyft community. We're also investing in predictive analytics to mitigate fraudulent claims. And we're doing a great job partnering with the fraud specialist team of Travelers. We've avoided a significant amount of fraudulent losses this year, thanks to the excellent work by Travelers who's collaborating with our own internal team. And then finally, as I mentioned, looking forward beginning on October 1st, we added progressive and state farmers partners who will share insurance risk in key states, in addition to our own existing successful partnership. So we expect our insurance partners' scale and world class processes will help us further reduce our insurance costs, risk exposure and volatility. And again, as I mentioned, Q3, the cost of ride sharing insurance as a percentage of revenue was lower in Q3 versus Q2, and Q4, we expect to be lower than Q3. So we're making a lot of progress. We're very excited on the wrist solutions, we still think we have a lot of wood to chop. In terms of your question in terms of longer term profitability. Again, in terms of, how we're going to achieve that milestone, again, it's our focus. Again, we're not doing food, we're not doing trucking, we're just focused on building the best transportation network there is. There is this increasing rationality in the market. And so we see lower coupon incidents today than we did a year ago and so more people are paying full price for rides. And then again, it's just about product innovation. And so, Logan mentioned Shared Saver. This is a mode we launched earlier this year. Already, we've generated over 10 million Shared Saver rides this year. So it's a really -- when we create these new modes, it just creates huge levers for growth.