This is almost certainly not what's going to happen; what's going to happen (assuming Uber succeeds, which is less than certain) is that Uber will attempt to ki

This is almost certainly not what's going to happen; what's going to happen (assuming Uber succeeds, which is less than certain) is that Uber will attempt to kick the ladder out from behind them by bribing policymakers to enforce custom-crafted regulation that makes being anything but exactly Uber illegal and being smaller than Uber unprofitable. Which is, of course, why we have rules in the first place.