&gt;<i>People have voted with their wallets</i><p>Uber is clearly a better service than your average taxi experience.  But we also don&#x27;t know the true price, since most drivers are skirting insurance requirements and the like.<p>It is difficult for me to imagine how a service like taxis can integrate a middle man like Uber, which everyone assumes will be massively profitable, compensate the drivers fairly <i>and</i> be cheaper than the current system.  The math doesn&#x27;t add up.