. >> for dan burgess, driving strangers around town is a great way to make cash and pass the time. >> it's a hobby. i don't make a living. i have a regular job. i enjoy meeting people. >> as a contract employee of uber, lift and side car he sets his own schedule and faces little scrutiny. essentially a licence to drive a cab, it costs hundreds of thousands. ride sharing cars are not required to have them. this man says that makes the medallions worthless. >> you take any old car, a convertible works in this case, and you can go and get signed up with a company and then you're in business. >> this is a group of cab opportunities suing the city of chiing go to -- chicago to stop ride sharing. >> state representative wrote new by proposed regulations requiring ride sharing companies to have a fee, have more shurns and have special licences for drivers providing rides. uber says the opposition comes from cab companies failure to innovate, like the ability to hail a cab from the 30th floor of an office building and have it waiting when you are outside. uber's manager says it conduct federa