In 2014, a New York taxi medallion sold for $1.3 million. Then Uber showed up, launched in city after city without asking permission, and medallion values collapsed below $200K. Drivers who'd mortgaged their lives on them went bankrupt. Twelve years later, Uber is paying lobbyists to stand next to those same taxi drivers. The Financial Times found Uber working with driver unions to slow robotaxis in New Jersey and Washington DC. The New Jersey proposal would force any robotaxi platform to…