It's easy not to like Uber. The taxi app plays fast and loose with laws - most recently it tested self-driving cars on the streets on California, despite being banned from doing so, and one of them ran a red light.
A report last year from the UK Government also painted a fairly grim picture of its drivers' conditions. Uber executives have bullied and harassed reporters.
But I've come round, for a couple of reasons. This first was being able to play Spotify from the back seat. Although a word of warning: blasting Blink 182 at full volume will negatively affect your Uber rating.
Second, I feel a bit sorry for Uber, because I'm not sure it's going to be around much longer.
This might seem a touching concern for a company that is supposedly valued at $62.5bn. And one at the vanguard of self-driving technology, with autonomous vehicles on the streets of Pittsburgh and Phoenix.
Its CEO Travis Kalanick has said that he loves the idea of replacing Uber's human drivers with robots.
But that's precisely the problem.
Google says it has managed to bring the cost of driverless technology - including the expensive laser sensors - down 90%.
It clearly wants to license its technology to - or partner with - manufacturers. Just like Microsoft did with Windows, it wants its platform to be on every machine, without setting up production lines itself.
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