[johnnycab]

>Uber's shtick is to complain about the evil taxi cartels, while statements like yours indicate that they're really the biggest of them all.

By rolling with an approved and expensed option, which eliminates certain amount of ambiguity, does not imply that Uber is part of a cartel; irrespective of it's licensing woes and/or impending banishment from multiple lucrative markets. At present, it does not even enjoy a majority position to form an alliance, let alone collude with locally competitive operators.