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Why do they still call it ride sharing? Just yesterday it was in the news that Uber drivers will now accept tips. How is this anything else than a glorified a
by kinkdr 10y ago
Why do they still call it ride sharing?
Just yesterday it was in the news that Uber drivers will now accept tips.
How is this anything else than a glorified app based taxi service? Maybe call it freelancing taxi, but definitely not ride sharing.
On a positive note, I am glad to see Uber respecting the law for once!
- fullshark 10y agoI find it to be a useful term to delineate the apps from traditional taxi services in conversation but otherwise I agree entirely. Both firms likely enjoy the term in press coverage because it makes them seem less threatening.
- potatolicious 10y agoI use the term "ride hailing" for this, because for the most part the "sharing economy" has no actual "sharing" whatsoever.
- eridius 10y agoThey're called ride sharing because the concept was born out of an app that was actually about finding carpool opportunities (I forget the name though).
- SilasX 10y agoIt's certainly not "sharing", I agree, but I find it useful to distinguish (in regulations) between taxi vs livery services in the sense that only the former can accept line-of-sight street hails, while the latter must only accept centrally dispatched requests. The former carries a lot of public safety risks that the latter doesn't, and cities have historically (long before Uber) regulated the former a lot more harshly.