[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.