I think you have the chicken and egg backwards. Issues with quality and service are what formed regulation in the first place. Regulation exists to fix a proble

I think you have the chicken and egg backwards. Issues with quality and service are what formed regulation in the first place. Regulation exists to fix a problem; look at the history of transportation, and the current state of 3rd world country transportation. Cabs were dangerous and took advantage of people before regulation, much as 3rd world country cabs do today. Your argument is not persuasive and is very short-sighted in terms of history. And to take it one more step: Lead-uber, by skirting the laws that were not serving the consumer but rather entrenching an industry has been able to do more in five years than the entire lead mining industry has in 50. Does that make you feel comfortable about 'disruption'? What makes mass transportation any different?