Emily Badger of the WAPO wonkblog reports that Uber is being used heavily in the DC area by politicians and their staffs. Pointer from Mark J. Perry, who comments,

Here’s my economic forecast for the transportation industry: Expect continued and very strong hurricane-strength Schumpeterian gales of creative destruction, with a high likelihood of market disruption for Big Taxi

Or, as Clubber Lang would put it, pain.