[jayswin]

Basically they use a lot of complicated, dodgy language to dance around the fact that they're company model is "We fully understand that our drivers aren't properly insured to drive passengers for money, but we've deceitfully removed ourselves from that part of the process, so we just take money from the drivers and they do what they do".

Here's why Uber works;

- Drivers don't get class 4 licenses (or whatever equivalent depending on location.

- Drivers don't pay the actual insurance required to transport paying passengers (tens of thousands per year)

- Because of this they gain a huge pool of non-professional drivers who treat a very legally regulated profession like it's a part time paper route for extra cash, unknowingly or willingly putting themselves in a very scary position to ruin their lives should an injury/crash insurance issue come up.

- Uber finds loopholes to absolve themselves of most legalities, and when they are held accountable, who cares because they're making billions.

So in a nutshell, Uber works because the company makes billions and the customer either doesn't know or doesn't care about the way they operate because there's no risk to the customer. But the drivers are the idiots, imo. They're the reason the company works and they're jobs aren't real, they're taking on potentially life altering risk for some extra pocket cash.

But it's because of all these casual drivers that Uber works so well, because they're just regular guys/girls sitting on a couch, seeing a request pop up and then heading out to the location with a smile and a bottle of water and making it look like a hero company to the end user.

There's a lot more to Uber resistance in cities like ours than "muslim mayor protecting taxi cartels", and they're wise to resist, imo. It's not legal and customers loving the experience shouldn't make any city officials go "well, the customers love it too much so we'll just let it be".