I don't know how all cab services work, but my local cabbies have told me they split the fare 50/50 with the company. The company owns and maintains the car and the driver pays gas. With Uber they seem to take pretty close to half get to push all the vehicle expenses on the driver. It just doesn't make sense to me.

> With Uber they seem to take pretty close to half get to push all the vehicle expenses on the driver.

This is only seems to be true, depending on definitions, when the fares are low. On a dollar basis, it seems, from my quick googling, that Uber is taking much less than 50%.

This is why the “self driving is ubers end game zealots” never made any sense to me. They’re currently exploiting people and can’t figure out how to make money doing it. And exploiting people has been a sure fire business model for the entirety of human history.

Really don’t see how robots are the answer here. They have an army of people working for peanuts already!

The idea being pushed is that you have more volume with Uber.

The absolute enormous surge in carjackings can’t help.

Normally you have to go through the effort of getting somebody stop, unlock the doors and give you the car. Now you can get red carpet service for your carjacking.

Cities are basically helpless to handle it too because they’re always minors and the police aren’t allowed to chase.

You can still go to juvenile prison as a minor, why does it stop them?