One of the top apps in Vancouver is from the yellow cab taxi company and it basically replicates Über's functionality except there is a huge existing fleet behind it and the prices are about half what Über charged before the regulators shut them down. Re-creating the über app is not too difficult, especially since most taxi companies already have sophisticated backend dispatching systems that apps can tie into. I'm guessing that the firms that sell this dispatching software got woken up by über and are offering white labeled apps to their taxi company customers. This will make it much harder for üÜber to break into new markets.

Now car2go, there's the future of cars on call. Especially in a city like Vancouver where you can nearly always find one within a couple of blocks.