> Uber made it ok for regular drivers commit road violations with impunity.

It was probably because cops stopped enforcing traffic laws during COVID and never started again:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/07/29/upshot/traffi...

> Uber made it ok for regular drivers commit road violations with impunity.

Can you say more about this?

My conjecture is that when people started to see non-taxi branded cars just idle on streets without parking, forcing people to cross over lanes around them, it broke a social barrier.

It was actually Vietnam according to historians.