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Just charge drivers $1/day to use the platform and now they aren't contractors, they're customers.

Even better, categorize your app as a game. Now they're players.

Pokémon Go players don't even get paid, yet they drive from pokestop to pokestop just to earn virtual items.

By default you get 5 uses of GPS per day, for more than that use in-app purchases. Also try our lootbox for a chance at winning fancy avatars to display near your name!

Actually, this might happen in the future. You could totally see it as, any independent person who want to offer rides as a service might need a platform for it. And if Uber offers itself more as a marketplace, this could make sense. Pay Uber a fixed price to be on the app, or have them take a percentage, and be routed through calls, but set your own prices for the rides.

I'm surprised there isn't an Uber like app that operates this way yet actually.

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