Nice attempt at a strawman fallacy there, ank_the_elder....
Nobody ever said "human suffering was laughable" - you just made that up. It's the equivalent of uttering "think of the children!", when it has nothing to do with the topic at hand.
I said that your examples were laughable - and you have said nothing to make me change my view.
I made numerous points - in Uber, you see a photograph of your driver before they arrive. In Uber, you see their rating (and can rate them afterwards). In Uber, the drivers are constantly tracked by GPS, which is stored in the cloud. You addressed none of these points in your reply.
Please list to me your reasons how a taxi driver is somehow more accountable than an Uber driver?
I have had numerous bad experiences with taxi drivers, both as a passenger, and as a fellow driver or cyclist on the road. I can assure you that attempting to contact the taxi companies (at least in Sydney) is usually an exercise in futility. It's only when you involve the police, that things get a bit more traction, and the taxi companies are suddenly ever so co-operative - fortunately I have only had to do that once.
In contrast, Uber customer support is fantastic. Even better, they have GPS records of everything - so if you say, the driver never showed, it is very easy to prove or disprove. Try doing that with a cab. (I've never actually had that issue with Uber, to be honest, of a driver not showing - only with taxis.)
Or one time, I left some headphones in an Uber. Immediately contacted the driver via the app, who then drove back to me for free, to give them to me. Try doing that in a cab.