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It's really premature for Uber to claim to be public transportation so the entire premise of the argument that they should do it is faulty imo.

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Where do they claim that?

The sub-headline:

> Ride-hailing companies aspire to be something akin to public transportation, but that doesn’t extend to sharing data with governments.

So this is supposedly noteworthy for that reason.

I think what tomcam was wondering was where Uber specifically claimed to be public transportation.

Yeah I worded that poorly, I didn't mean to state that Uber was claiming that, merely that the article seemed built on a faulty premise. Uber could very well be considered public transportation at some point in the future and they may claim it to get tax breaks / infrastructure spending etc, but that's way way way out in the future if at all.

Oh okay, that makes sense.

Per your quote, they _aspire_ to be similar to public transportation, they don't claim to be public transportation - it isn't premature for them to claim to be public transportation because they don't [claim to be].

Oh, well I meant that Uber shouldn't (yet) claim to be public transportation (and they don't). So the idea that are and are not sharing data is a problem isn't true.

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