On the other hand, those rules reduced the number of taxis and congestion in NYC. There is a real game theory problem here in that any one company wants as many of its own cars in the field as possible, but if every company is doing that the roads get worse then they are. Uber is not feeling this too much since they are still pretty small, but the original problem is still there. Too dense a population, not enough road, and too much individual profit to be made.