[jedberg]

No no they aren't a taxi company. They are a marketplace that matches people selling space in their car with people who need space in a car.

Until they get their self driving cars, and then the are a transportation and logistics company.

But they definitely aren't a taxi company

[gozo]

Of course they are, everything else is just PR at the moment. That said, they are (the first?) global taxi company. No one is surprised that global retailers, like e.g. H&M, have huge headquarters.

[noer]

They're a company you can contact to dispatch a car to take you where you want to go that charges you by distance traveled. If that's not a taxi, I don't know what is.

[falsestprophet]

A taxi is a vehicle for hire that you can lawfully hail on the street.

[mfringel]

You've just described every taxi dispatcher on the planet, modulo a couple of rounding errors about medallions.