I'm surprised nobody has yet commented on WHY they are shutting down tonight.<p>From [1]: "We have decided to suspend UberPOP starting tonight [...] first and foremost to <i>protect our drivers</i> ." - Thibaud Simphal, CEO Uber France<p>Translation: "this is supposed to be a developed country with the rule of law, but the police is not capable of doing its job (or willing), so we're giving up".<p>Another pearl: "Since the first of January, only 215 new VTC [licenses for private cars, the so called "legal" way of becoming an UberX] licenses were given out in the whole of France, even though during the same period, we had over 25,000 applicants at Uber to become a VTC driver."<p>That's a 0.86% success rate. I'm sure those 215 cars were the absolute limit the market (of ~60 million inhabitants, with 400,000 passengers already using UberPOP) could bear and that the decision is not at all politically motivated.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2015/07/03/uber-annonce-la-suspension-d-uberpop-en-france_4669011_3234.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2015/07/03/uber-annon...</a>