"At the NuRide website, we encourage those who are looking to share a ride to be able to register for carpooling,vanpooling, and other kinds of activities or to investigate the use of transit."
VOA: standard.2010.07.26
So services like Lyft and Carshare may force San Francisco and other government agencies to rethink what arideshare is.
But his main point was that Europe had grown used to a free ride on American defence spending (which, as ashare of GDP, is about three times the European NATO average).