[supster]

Great, now if you go to a Tier 3 city in China will that work also? Has your SMS cab service built a worldwide network with deep liquidity? Does your cab service account for supply and demand in realtime? Does you cab service experiment in other forms of logistics from helicopters, food delivery, bike couriers? Does that service employ the entire former Carnegie Mellon Robotics department for R&D into self driving cars? If you said yes to all of these, please let me know, I would love to invest!

[venomsnake]

Two of sentences you wrote deal with investment to the future that is not yet implemented - so they cannot change "fundamentally how we view transportation" yet.

Supply and demand in realtime is not an issue, since my town is oversupplied on cabs so a crunch rarely arises. The worldwide network with deep liquidity is useless when we are talking about local service. Those third tier city china drivers will have hard time giving a hand in London if a crunch arises.

Uber is just a gypsy cab with a polished app. Everything else is just in the works.