[themagician]

Yes. Perhaps even moreso. With Uber, at least in the beginning and still a little now, there was a contingent of both professional drivers and customers willing to use a sustainable service.

Uber made total sense in big cities when minimums were $15, the average ride was $40+, and all cars were staffed by professional drivers looking for extra income and hours between clients. It was win-win, complied with the law and really didn’t even have that big of an impact on the taxi industry because it wasn’t a race to the bottom.

None of these services make any sense with $7 rides and random people with a drivers license trying to make a living off of driving all day long.