Uber's Playbook For Sabotaging Lyft

Uber is an unlicensed cab service and it will be cracked down upon to the point on low profitability in short order.
 
Will Anonymous step in, or is it really possible to be concerned over the ethics of a barely legitimate and unregulated business?
Really, as this is all so gray market, this is a question for Zhirinovsky as he is in a land almost without law.
 
I use Uber all the time. I'd say 1/3 of the time I get solicited to try a rival service or I get a business card for the driver's home service (whichever company they are from). But whenever I have issues with a driver, Uber always sides with me within a few hours and all I need to get a refund is replying to the e-mail receipt.

Rather than trying to be exactly like Uber, competitors ought to introduce something to differentiate themselves. Countering the surge pricing model and having more flat rates for the people who live far away could be a start. Being able to enter a destination in advance might help newer drivers too.
 
This is a wonderful microcosm of free market vs. governmental regulation with attempted monopoly and barriers to entry and all being tossed in too! I honestly don't know for whom to cheer.
 
I finally used UberX on the weekend. I had about 10+ drinks and on a Friday night there were a lot more UberX cars out in force. It has only been launched for a few weeks here in Toronto. Driver had no clue where I lived since he's from a suburb. He said he was playing around with the app. Ended up talking about the Armenian diaspora and the Orthodox church. There's no gratuity so I'm not sure why he kept saying I was so intelligent.

I'm pretty sure he can get pulled over if I'm not wearing my seat belt? Anyway, felt like a gypsy cab. Unless I'm desperate I'll probably stick with UberTaxi and Uber black cars. I think the biggest issue is having to tell the driver which route to take and him fiddling with the GPS.
 
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