Uber is a taxi company that replaced the taxi industry's global pain point: dispatchers, with an app. Secondary: medallions (which are eventually coming back vi

Uber is a taxi company that replaced the taxi industry's global pain point: dispatchers, with an app. Secondary: medallions (which are eventually coming back via regulation). How they populate their inventory of drivers is not particularly special. You used to be able to drive a hack for a few hours and lose money doing it, too. That part hasn't changed, you can just lose that money driving your own car now.