[riverdawg]

I've used Über in several cities, including Philadelphia. A year ago, when I arrived at the Philadelphia airport, the temperature was 23F and it was beginning to snow. The line at the airport for a taxi was about 75 people deep and lengthening. A coworker I was traveling with brought up his Über app on his cellphone, located three or four cabs that were near the airport and chose one to engage. The Über driver arrived in 7-8 minutes in a clean, late-model sedan and we were on our way downtown while the taxi line had barely budged. We knew who was coming to pick us up, his rating by other customers, and how much it was going to cost. In most large cities, the incumbent taxi companies are regulated monopolists who are resistant to change of any sort ( including new technologies and different business models). They remind me of the 1980-era cable companies that most of us suffered through until satellite and fiber-optic technologies gave us viable alternatives.

[logi_cal869]

Uber investors would read that and wring their hands, marveling at the success of their marketing.

You confuse the services of victimized drivers who, by their actions under Uber, victimize their passengers.

It truly amazes me how emotional satisfaction supplants normal, rational thought in some otherwise normally-intelligent people...

I suggest you read this sometime
http://www.cnet.com/news/how-risky-is-your-uber-ride-maybe-more-than-you-think/
and actually read those Terms that passengers (you) agree to simply by using the App...

Then again, perhaps you have.