What market was it supposed to disrupt? The Uber play was babble about magic self driving cars as a distraction and put the taxi business out of business, then

What market was it supposed to disrupt? The Uber play was babble about magic self driving cars as a distraction and put the taxi business out of business, then jack up the rate and turn into the taxi business. What’s bird doing? Other than being the canary in the coal mine that VC dollars ran out of investments, what did it accomplish?