Uber and Lyft drivers in Austin are of course now free to set up their own independent ride sharing services, and hire employees and treat them as employees (and buy them cars, etc.), and assume liability and responsibility for them, and make all of the money that comes with that. You know, like a taxi company. They can even fingerprint them for Austin. Austin would be a great market for that kind of innovative entrepreneurship right now. Like
Get Me, a ride-sharing start-up from Dallas still operating in Austin - it could just devour all of that Uber and Lyft marketshare now.
But uh-oh, it has 10,000 drivers, but only has six employees, wah wah.