> Well, market forces are at work: if Uber/Lyft provide no additional value over drivers' work (and treat drivers as disposable assets), they themselves will ge

> Well, market forces are at work: if Uber/Lyft provide no additional value over drivers' work (and treat drivers as disposable assets), they themselves will get "disrupted" and the drivers will get rid of them We shall see if that ends up being the case. It's an open question to me. I could see this being as effective as Uber. But I could also see an industry association implementing some anti-consumer policies that make it less appealing than Uber. I'm also interested to see how the compensation model works out. It will be interesting to see if the cooperative pays out for idle/waiting for passenger time. It will also be interesting to see if they offer health coverage, PTO, etc. Or is the idea simply that they will give the drivers a larger slice of the earnings? A pure labor-price play? I have often wondered what you'd build in the ride-sharing space if you didn't have a profit incentive. One could imagine going full auction nerd and building an app where drivers and passengers are able to bid (automatically?) in an auction to see who gets whose time. Of course you'd lose price predictability. And that might cost you customers, and that might cost you volume, which you absolutely need to have a modicum of success in this space. An app that has only drivers or only passengers is not a useful app. How sick would it be if we had interoperability laws where the app could fall back to Uber if it couldn't find a better price in-app? I'm sure this would be against Uber's TOS today, but it would be a great pro-consumer feature.