On the other hand, I took a lot of ubers last year (in Amsterdam). We don&#x27;t have uber X, but Black and Lux. Pricing of black is on average 10-20% below normal taxi&#x27;s. All driver&#x27;s I&#x27;ve asked have said that they prefer uber for mainly 3 reasons:<p>1. Control over when they drive<p>2. Higher utilisation (which in extension should be a big driver for Uberpool)<p>3. Friendlier&#x2F;less troublesome passengers<p>Some actually bought (nice) new cars (Mercedes&#x2F;BMW) and explained me a bit more about the economics of buying a new car and how it made sense for them while driving for Uber. Many I spoke to share the car with another driver to get more rides done per day.<p>As such, I wouldn&#x27;t assume that most drivers don&#x27;t account for the  total cost of ownership. To me it seems that many do.