I usually just didn't go whereever I am going now - like to a social outing which involves drinking, because I don't want DUI, getting there by public transit sucks and finding a cab while drunk sucks too. Or paid through the nose, if it's a necessary trip, or driven full hour super-tired after a 10 hour flight (not illegal, unlike DUI, but almost as dangerous, sigh). As every quality of life improvement, Uber is not strictly necessary - people lived millenia without it, right? It just... well, improves the quality of life.