For example if a bunch of cabbies want to run their own homebrewed clone of Uber / Lyft (As cabbies in some cities actually do), a well-programmed DAO could save the group hundreds of thousands of dollars that would normally be spend on servers and staff to maintain them.
That isn't a DAO. That's a dApp. It could in theory also be organized as a DAO, but the two aren't synonymous.
As others have mentioned, a dApp would be a spectacularly bad choice of technology for this type of application -- it's slower, dramatically more expensive to run, and would run a significant risk of permanently leaking users' PII (like their ride history) to the blockchain.
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That isn't a DAO. That's a dApp. It could in theory also be organized as a DAO, but the two aren't synonymous.
As others have mentioned, a dApp would be a spectacularly bad choice of technology for this type of application -- it's slower, dramatically more expensive to run, and would run a significant risk of permanently leaking users' PII (like their ride history) to the blockchain.