That is fair, you are probably right. But the author is not making the claims, she is responding to claims made by Uber in the past. Specifically: >In 2015,

That is fair, you are probably right. But the author is not making the claims, she is responding to claims made by Uber in the past. Specifically: >In 2015, Uber founder Travis Kalanick gave a TED talk in which he vowed the new rideshare business model would get “more people into fewer cars,” dramatically reduce air pollution and, as he put it, “reclaim our cities today.”