> Why would someone wait minutes for one to arrive when they can just hop in an autocar to go the hospital?
If you can just hop in and go to the hospital by yourself you don't need an ambulance.
If you can just hop in and go to the hospital by yourself you don't need an ambulance.
A study was done (I haven't read the whole thing) that seemed to indicate cities with UberX had a reduction in ambulance use: http://www2.ku.edu/~kuwpaper/2017Papers/201708.pdf
(Though the wording of the GP was slightly ambiguous and seemed to compare a time-sensitive emergency to being able to take some other vehicle to the hospital)