I don't have a "disregard for safety." 

If customers want cameras then, under a free market, competitive drivers will provide them. If drivers want them for their protection then the drivers will have them. No nanny-city BS needed. That's how competent, autonomous adults live and interact everyday when provided freedom of choice (as opposed to an artificially limited supply due to rapacious regulatory capture).

After all, those camera requirements you tout only came about because your oh-so-responsible cabbies, even with their existing regulations and monopoly, were -committing crimes-. If it was for self-defense, the cabbies themselves, or their "socially responsible" license owners, would have provided them, right?

I note you are silent on how easily and cheaply all of your other regulatory "requirements" are dealt with by a free and open market.