[kuzehanka]

Stop disruptively? What does that even mean. Do taxis also stop disruptively according to your definition?

> Uber and Lyft drivers will loop until they get a ride

I ride Uber almost every weekday twice a day. I'd say about 80% of the time the driver has their next trip queued up before my trip ends.

What Uber has done for cities is reduce the number of people who drive in to work and then spend 15 minutes looping around looking for a place to park, possibly multiple times each day.

[gamblor956]

It really hasn't. People who drive to work park in monthly lots, usually with assigned spots. Uber replaced people driving to restaurants and bars.

[thereisnospork]

Either way I'd call that a net win for society. Where's the paper that estimates how many dui-related deaths Uber et al has prevented?

[jacques_chester]

There are several, including papers from Uber.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/07/business/uber-drunk-drivi...

[jacques_chester]

> Stop disruptively? What does that even mean. Do taxis also stop disruptively according to your definition?

Yes. But the number of taxis has not exploded in 5 years.