Hearing from a lot of people today who use and love Uber. I have to go to Las Vegas several times in the coming months to work on a project and I was wondering how to use it there. How would it work for, say, an airport pickup? The answer is that it doesn't, at least not in Vegas, where laws have been configured to protect the existing taxi industry.
That doesn't bother me. Vegas cab drivers are some of the best in the country and they deserve to make a living. But let's watch. I think Uber is the new business model for the industry of charging people to drive them quickly and without ceremony from Point A to Point B, and that the taxi biz will have to reconfigure itself within that model. Limousines, I suspect, will not change much because they're about luxury, usually prearranged. Also, a lot of limo bookings are a matter of someone sending a car for you…and Uber isn't arranged for that. But the times, they will be a'changing…