> This situation seems better than taxis, which drive an empty car around when they're NOT EVEN on their way to pick someone up. This is true, but mainly for d

> This situation seems better than taxis, which drive an empty car around when they're NOT EVEN on their way to pick someone up. This is true, but mainly for dense cities prior to Uber/Lyft, and even then cabs driving looking for fares would be in the central part of the city. Here in NYC back in the day I’d rarely find a cab just driving around in Brooklyn, you’d typically find them on main roads driving back to Manhattan after dropping off their last fare if you did. Now there are just a lot more for hire vehicles driving around the city in general. There was an artificial shortage of medallions, with about 14000 of them back before the apps, plus a bunch of for hire car services (and dollar vans on Flatbush). Now there’s about 100,000 cars for hire in NYC.