Deregulation helped. But the Uber dispatch was way better. Ubers would actually show up and you could see them coming on gps. For a while in Chicago, uberX wa

Deregulation helped. But the Uber dispatch was way better. Ubers would actually show up and you could see them coming on gps. For a while in Chicago, uberX was banned but you could use Uber to hail a registered cab. It was still much better than trying to use dispatch.