> it has saved thousands of lives a year due to less drunk driving

According to Uber?

> Additionally, it has enabled millions of people in cities to skip buying a new car/any car which saves tons of emissions.

Citation needed. I believe the last analysis I read showed that most people used Uber etc to replace transit or walking, which means it adds to emissions.

I've used taxis in multiple cities that I booked through an app and got a fare ahead of time. At this point Uber is "a taxi, but with no guarantee of quality* and no cap on how many of them are creating traffic"

*GPS routing does no good when the driver clearly can't read a map and doesn't know where they are or how to follow directions.