Booking rides doesn’t cost them dollars. Whatever the customer pays, Uber skins a few bucks off of and sends the rest to the driver. The entire costs of providi

Booking rides doesn’t cost them dollars. Whatever the customer pays, Uber skins a few bucks off of and sends the rest to the driver. The entire costs of providing the actual ride falls on the driver, Iber just pays the cost of their software platform, which again, is pennies per ride. Ultimately drivers will make what the market will bear. If they don’t make enough, driver count will fall, Uber will raise rates to compensate, until equilibrium is reached. And the business will go on, every ride costing Uber a few cents to dispatch, and then still skimming a couple bucks from the amount paid the driver.