I've used Uber several times now. Used Lyft once when I rode with someone else who called Lyft on her app. Everything else even about the two companies, I'm not going with the one who is going to show up with a pink mustache on the front of their car. I also don't want to be greeted with the fist pump or the canned speech they give to their drivers to spew to every customer about 'community.'

Lyft has offered me about $60 in free rides. I've yet to use a single dollar.

There is nothing 'dark and draconian' about Uber - that is simply Uber Nonsense.