"This would obviously make Uber drivers subject to minimum wage. How does one even figure that out? Now that there are local minimum wages (e.g. LA soon to be

"This would obviously make Uber drivers subject to minimum wage. How does one even figure that out? Now that there are local minimum wages (e.g. LA soon to be $15 an hour) how do you compute minimum wage for a trip that begins outside of LA but ends inside the city? Or vice versa?" Probably you count time in LA at the LA rate, and when they leave the LA area by crossing the city limit, you calculate that accordingly. A lot of these seem like non issues. Like the time waiting to pick up a driver isn't the responsibility of the company anymore then your time checking a website to see if you got hours that week is the company's responsibility. The California Supreme Court, in Brinker Restaurant Corp. v. Superior Court, found that you don't have to force meal breaks, simply provide them, and my understanding is that that only applies if they work more then five hours, and if a work period is no more then 6 hours, meals can be waived by mutual consent. Easy enough to do through the app. The employees will just be part time employees working a variable shift. That solves like half of these "issues". This didn't kill Uber. It still has economies of scale that put it ahead of normal taxi services, and the ability to intelligently adjust pricing.