It doesn’t take a Nobel Laureate to come up with the idea of an app based taxi system for autonomous cars. And start up costs would be much greater when you actually have to buy and maintain the fleet unlike their current situation.

Uber is not “subsidizing” it’s drivers - let’s make that clear. If anything drivers are the ones subsidizing Uber since they provide the vehicle and bear the cost of phone bills, insurance, maintenance, gas, and depreciation. Uber has essentially no overhead to pay except for its legislative legal agenda. The…