[kunaalarya]

not necessarily. a lot of Uber's drivers use cars that are financed through Uber and are effectively locked into Uber for 5 years (unless they step out of ridesharing). This is how Uber has been able to maintain a huge supply with great cars (vs. you don't know what you'll get with Lyft).

[nostrademons]

Interesting - I didn't know that. I don't see how it would affect Google, though. Presumably Google would offer the service with self-driving cars, and get rid of the drivers entirely. They'd have to step out of ridesharing, because there would be no more market for ridesharing drivers.