Like many things from companies this size, clear legality has little bearing on their plans. Uber’s business model has been to cheat the system since day one,

Like many things from companies this size, clear legality has little bearing on their plans. Uber’s business model has been to cheat the system since day one, sidestepping the established laws covering commercial taxi and transportation services. They had enough time to establish their turf and revenues to fund their needed war chest, when they finally got sued by assorted municipality and governments. Then they drag things through the courts for as long as they can, lengthening their runway. I would bet they are planning a similar strategy here. They likely have already done the math to show that it will be profitable any which way the wind blows. At their scale of capitalization, legality is either entirely irrelevant or can be bought as a minor cost of doing business.