It's so funny because a decade ago on this very website the rhetoric was the exact opposite in comments. People would bloviate many paragraphs about how disruptive Uber, etc. were and how they were going to revolutionize transportation. People around the world in mass would sell their cars and move into the city and just Uber everywhere etc etc. Uber would pioneer self driving cars and then robots would drive us everywhere and deliver us to a fully automated capitalism future. There was much hype about how only a company like Uber or Lyft could do this and that the old cab companies were complete dinosaurs that would be dead in a decade.

Anyone who dared to suggest that the new ride share companies were actually just cab companies feeding off a pump of VC funding were down voted and shouted down into oblivion. Turns out those people were exactly right though...