I've lived here for ~4 years, which is not a long time, but anecdotally, every other taxi or uber driver has given me an earful of their opinion on regulation (

I've lived here for ~4 years, which is not a long time, but anecdotally, every other taxi or uber driver has given me an earful of their opinion on regulation (or lack of). If I were a taxi driver 5 years ago, I would have began driving for Uber and potentially looking for other career paths and finding opportunities to invest. I think there are a lot of people who come over with families and poor language skills and taxi driver is the obvious job. I really would not want to be a person in that position. Yes, I absolutely think that whether or not it was Travis Kalanick or any other tech entrepreneur rolling the initial die, but that it's inevitable that in 10 years we're going to press a button on our phone and a self-driving car will pick us up with less people owning vehicles. It was a great idea that was going to succeed unless it was deliberately quashed. The concept of a taxi driver will be memory in 20 years from now.