It depends on who owns, maintains, and is paying for the vehicle and license/medallion to operate. The whole system - whether Uber/Lyft drivers who "relied on

It depends on who owns, maintains, and is paying for the vehicle and license/medallion to operate. The whole system - whether Uber/Lyft drivers who "relied on their unfamiliarity with capital depreciation calculations"[1] or traditional cabbies who, let's be honest is not a glamorous job, is tenuous at best. Cutting out the lowest cost factors and replacing them with technology and also incurring the fleet costs doesn't really seem like a great business. [1] https://pluralistic.net/2021/08/10/unter/#bezzle-no-more https://pluralistic.net/2021/08/10/unter/#bezzle-no-more