#1 I see drivers use other nav apps all the time. Uber just provides integrated navigation, but I'm pretty sure it's not required. The uber app didn't have na

#1 I see drivers use other nav apps all the time. Uber just provides integrated navigation, but I'm pretty sure it's not required. The uber app didn't have navigation for quite a while actually. #6 is calfornia regulation, not an uber/lyft/whoever requirement. I don't know how it's like elsewhere. #9 I would compare uber to current taxi independent contractors, which have been standard operating procedure for decades. The taxi driver rents a taxi car with it's attached taxi medallion for a few hundred dollars a day. Anything they make after that is their money. But since the fee is usually very high, they have to work 12 hours day to make something approaching a living. I'm fairly certain the card terminals and the taxi company phone dispatch services come with that rental.