Then the IRS is being generous, as most of the vehicles in that linked page cost less than $0.58/mile.

They're including depreciation which makes sense for small businesses that turn over their fleet every X years.

If you're not swapping cars ever few years depreciation per mile is basically irrelevant because age and what you use the vehicle for will dominate depreciation.

An Uber driver will typically drive 30-50,000 miles/year (looking at a few quick search results). At that rate, your car will wear much faster and require replacement or major maintenance much sooner than is typical.

You can't drive Uber in an old car, can you?

Edit: apparently you can, and drivers leasing new cars to drive are getting creamed.

In many markets, the car can be up to 15 years old.

https://www.uber.com/drive/houston/vehicle-requirements/

The AAA numbers are within a hair of the IRS numbers so presumably yes.

Looks like you are correct. As another user has pointed out, those numbers a likely based on average driving of 10-15k per year, I would guess an uber driver who drives full time will easily drive twice that.