I am one of those people who doesn’t own a car. I never have. I don’t even have a driver’s license and it was nearly 25 years ago when I last rode a scooter. I walk, take the subway and, when it was needed I used to take a cab everywhere. In fact, I was good friends with the cab dispatcher of my preferred cab company in San Francisco. It was an imperfect world, but then Uber came along.

At first Uber was like someone you meet at a party, talk to for a little bit, exchange phone numbers and forget about. I tried Uber in its infancy and then went back to my old life. I live three blocks from work and with the epicenter of consumer and web tech moving to San Francisco, everything was within walking distance. For Palo Alto, there was Caltrain.

The only time the…