Uber, a San Francisco startup, is ruffling lots of regulatory feathers, as reported recently [https://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/03/technology/app-maker-uber-hits-regulatory-snarl.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20121203] in the New York Times.  I also wrote about my experience with Uber [http://danielodio.com/me-and-my-driver-ish] back in 2010.