We should go back to living in caves while we’re at it...

Obviously, the taxi companies are trying to degrade Uber / Lyft into basically taxis... It’s also just another added layer of difficulty to stop people from wanting to join Uber by forcing them to deface their car in some way.

Speaking for me personally, assuming I was willing to work for Uber and go through their background checks (seems plausible), going for fingerprinting ... feels like an offensive invasion of my privacy (I don’t like giving away biometric information as a general rule - and it stinks of being treated like a criminal)

I’d think of it like this: “For every 1/10s slow down in Amazon’s site, they expect to lose around a billion dollars a year”... Which is to say that small things affect people when you are dealing with large numbers.