The problem is that the corporations too often have a large influence on what is considered "dangerous," and that too often becomes things that are financially dangerous to entrenched corporations, like innovation.
True. But sometimes corporations would prefer to innovate at the cost of lives, or safety, or even honesty.
I'm not suggesting that this applies to Uber or not, as clearly people find value in it and also find value in regulation for taxis in general, only that I don't believe it's axiomatic that regulation and innovation are necessarily mutually opposed.