This doesn't address the problem at all. Fleets of physical cars do not scale like Uber's business does right now. A fleet would represent a huge capital investment in the cars themselves and in infrastructure like parking and service garages for all these vehicles. This is a vast sum of money that would now be tied up in illiquid, depreciating assets. Not to mention that it would take many years to build out such a fleet.

Expanding the fleet to a new city now means buying land, building facilities, hiring mechanics and admin staff, and buying the cars. At this point Uber would look more like UPS - with UPS-like growth - than a tech company. All the while, unless they raise prices significantly, they're still losing money.

The car companies may finance them, in order to get their models sold. Car companies have always been huge financing operations, and cars are reasonably good in terms of debt finance, as they are relatively easy to repossess and resell.

The one valid cost you've mentioned would be the cost of parking all those cars. A couple of points. Cars in service don't need parking, obviously. They're either ferrying passengers or on their way to the next fare. And, as demand for transportation drops on a given day, parking availability increases and parking costs drop. Finally , a car being removed from service, on a given day, may be sent to low-cost parking, far from expensive urban centers. Many Uber/Lyft drivers do this currently and still make a profit.

The cost of infrastructure and automechanics, etc, is spread across the fleet. That's the benefit of operating at scale - economies of scale. You don't lose money merely because you're operating at scale, that's not how it works. What would it cost you to maintain a Prius? How about 100 identical Priuses? It's not 100x.

Finally, the comparison to FedEx/UPS is flawed. Those guys don't just have a fleet of trucks to maintain, they have to deal with shipping centers, hubs, air transportation, multi-day package tracking, and the logistics nightmare that's involved in doing all that and still getting packages delivered. They'd rightfully tell you managing their fleet is the least of their concerns.