How Uber Is Changing Night Life in Los Angeles - NYTimes.com

LOS ANGELES — When Ryan O’Connell, 28, moved here from New York last year, he didn’t want a car. “I’ve always been so scared of driving,” he said. “I feel like I would be a bad driver.”Normally, that would be a problem in one of America’s most auto-centric places, where cruising along the Sunset Strip is a lifestyle and cars are not only a means of transportation but a status symbol.