I keep wondering about this an no one is giving a clean answer on this. I have no doubt that Uber and Lyft are in some ways doing this to game the system and I

I keep wondering about this an no one is giving a clean answer on this. I have no doubt that Uber and Lyft are in some ways doing this to game the system and I really don't want to defend how they treat their drivers. But at the same time, if you are going to be paying an hourly wage you would expect some threshold of work activity during that time. If there are too many drivers on the road and that utilization is too low, than you are paying for people that you don't need. That is how most hourly jobs work, you hire for the amount of work (or expected amount of work) that you expect needs to be done with an expectation of busy time. All of the reporting has been about screwing over the drivers, but it seems like a thing you would do in any normal situation. The problem here is these companies before the law could have any number of cars on the road and it didn't matter how many people were using it. And any of the drivers were not interviewed in a traditional sense for the work.