This article pretty much sums up my positions on uber:

http://thehumanist.com/commentary/co...-an-uber-rider

Yes, they have some bozos working for them and yes, they have done some unsavory things (Sydney hostage crisis surge pricing, really?) but ... the taxi lobby isn't exactly clean as a whistle either. At least I know the name of my uber driver, where he is, what kind of car he is driving, his contact information, etc. As a woman who travels alone often, I vastly prefer the knowledge that I have all of that information to the unknown of a taxi driver (and I've had some AWFUL cab drivers in my life, where I feared for my very life).