Seems like a data play. You’ll likely enable location in the Uber app, so now they’ll get your location passively when you’re just searching public transit routes.

Turn that around and resell the location data to other data aggregating businesses. Or use it in-house to augment forecasting or pricing models.

Seems slimey to me. Public funds should be providing app access for this sort of thing, with audits to demonstrate personal data is not collected.

Really wish it was more popular to lock down privacy options in phones to make it so this sort of thing is not profitable for companies like this.