This is awesome! The ride sharing platforms should plug into the universal transportation app that serves public transit, cabs, car share, etc. I gotta see Barcelona.
In the US that would mean allowing the same bureaucratic organization that manages Medicare/Medicaid to manage a transportation app. And then you'd deal with the Intuits of transportation that would legally hobble any meaningful development in favor of their bespoke (and expensive) ride-hailing service...
And so on. Maybe I'm just a cynic about these things.
We could instead regulate a distributed ride-sharing communications system that companies could build apps for and drivers could hook in to. Well regulated industries tend to thrive (look at internet/cellphone providers in Japan).
Why are you keeping your public companies in such a bad shape?
Every large organization is bureaucratic. The US federal government does pretty well, IME: Parks, highways, air travel, food safety, drug safety, medical and scientific research, public universities, NASA, military, etc etc. It's not perfect, but nothing is.
I'm hesistant to say this because I don't live in the USA and so it's not really my business but ....
You know you really don't have to live in this society where large organisations are allowed to maintain de-facto monopolies. Every other part of the developed world has laws which limit monopoly suppliers. The laws aren't perfect but they have an effect.
Oddly enough the only real exception to this is the digital advertising duopoly owned by two large US companies and which operates on a, pretty much, global scale. So far, the rest of the developed world hasn't worked out how to address that.