[sureaboutthis]

Your first paragraph, here, doesn't matter. He is stating opinion as if it were fact and what he said (not you now) isn't fact at all.

Your second paragraph emphasizes my point. You,too, are stating that Uber is a car manufacturer, in whole or in part. Does Uber manufacture any parts of this car at all? The impression the opinion piece gives is that Uber manufacturers cars.

[CydeWeys]

This is a pointless semantic argument. Uber did write and is responsible for the self-diving software involved, which is what's at issue here.