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Why? If Uber and lyft did this from the beginning, they would have never lasted a week. "Turns out we can't operate like a Taxi". "Turns out we are actually su
by ejcx 11y ago
Why? If Uber and lyft did this from the beginning, they would have never lasted a week.
"Turns out we can't operate like a Taxi". "Turns out we are actually supposed to be treating the drivers as employees". "Turns out we are supposed to be vetting these drivers more extensively".
If uber and lyft asked permission they simply wouldn't exist.
- raverbashing 11y agoCorrect Still, you want to limit your liability. Not following FCC rules seems a stupid and pointless transgression
- geobmx540 11y agoSeems like an oversight
- HiYaBarbie 11y ago> Not following FCC rules seems a stupid and pointless transgression Perhaps unless the FCC rules themselves are pointless? The reason why Uber and Lyft are given a hard time is that they're a serious threat to state-maintained taxi-cartels all over the world.
- gnopgnip 11y agoOr they just forgot to include the opt out options.
- myhf 11y agoPerhaps the Pure Food and Drug Act is pointless, too.
- HiYaBarbie 11y agoPerhaps the safety-related government agencies aren't really doing their purported job?
- DanBC 11y ago> The reason why Uber and Lyft are given a hard time is that they're a serious threat to state-maintained taxi-cartels all over the world. No, they're given a hard time because they ignore regulation like driver background checks or insurance or calibrated tamper proof meters.
- HiYaBarbie 11y ago> No, they're given a hard time because they ignore regulation like driver background checks or insurance or calibrated tamper proof meters. "Ignoring regulations" in this context basically boils down to "competing with taxi cartels". That's obviously upsetting to the cartels, and unhappy noises are made about background checks and meters, as if those potential problems could only be solved with a cartel. We both know that Uber & Lyft drivers give better service overall than taxi drivers overall. That's because Uber and Lyft are not part of a cartel, and have to therefore please their customers lest they lose them.
- yifanlu 11y agoAnd why should they last for more than a week if they break rules? Sure, you can argue that the rules are pointless but it would be arrogant for you and I to decide which rules we want to follow and which ones we can ignore. Maybe treating drivers as employees and vetting them would cost more but benefit both parties more. Maybe not. But not doing either definitely benefits the company. And maybe certain rules exist to protect us from companies; even if we don't know it because we haven't lived without such protection.
- bryanbuckley 11y agoIt's probably healthy for a system's rules to occasionally be tested. The important rules are probably more efficiently/effectively enforced than the others.