Not suggesting that this is the difference between it being worth it or not for an individual person, but I didn't feel like taking an Uber this time out of LAX and did a traditional cab to Pasadena -- it was $90. The Uber app quoted me at $38 and $33 if I had wanted to do pool (side note, I've ridden pool 3 times between LAX and Pasadena and not once have they ever picked up another passenger).
A savings of $50 for a one way trip is definitely at the point where the "spying" is worth it for me.
Well, in my book that's exactly the rub.
I, for one, don't trust them at all.
Pulling that extra effort to track Apple devices even after the app has been deleted and other shenagigans they pulled in violating their customer's privacy doesn't really help in the trust building department:
http://www.wired.co.uk/article/uber-track-location-data-upda...