>But why would you, if you could get a car within minutes? Obviously, given the choice between a good interface with slow service and a good interface with fas

>But why would you, if you could get a car within minutes? Obviously, given the choice between a good interface with slow service and a good interface with fast service, at similar price points, I'll pick the latter. I was just saying that even if uber/lyft did not add more cabs to the road (decreasing my wait time) - and that's the part where some are suggesting they are engaging in "regulatory arbitrage"- just having a uber-like interface to a regular cab company would take the pre-existing cab system from "not good enough" to "good enough" for me to use on nights out. For me, at least, the interface (a lot of which is the ability to not need to watch for the cab) is more important than the speed. (Of course, would existing cab companies bother to use a new system, when all their cabs are already full?)