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regular basic inspection/maintenance (in Australia it's once a day from memory) of taxis mean a customer is much less likely to get stuck somewhere because thei

regular basic inspection/maintenance (in Australia it's once a day from memory) of taxis mean a customer is much less likely to get stuck somewhere because their taxi had a mechanical failure. Taxis drive a LOT more km/miles than regular cars - more driving, and particularly more city driving === more wear and tear on the cars systems. Yet again it seems to me that the fandom around uber in the USA is because your taxi regulations are just stupid. I've never heard of "the card machine was broken so I was forced to pay cash".

Malician 10y ago
Except this doesn't actually happen. I have always had much better cars riding in Uber, much better service, and felt safer, too. There is nothing good about cabs. I have a list of cab horror stories long as my arm.
- stephenr 10y ago
  So your argument is basically: the law says X must happen. X doesn't happen, so laws are inherently bad. Why are Americans so uniquely able to have terrible implementations of things and just treat the idea in general as the fault, not the implementation.
  - maverick_iceman 10y ago
    “One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.” ― Milton Friedman
    - stephenr 10y ago
      So your defence of this uniquely American behaviour, is a quote, by an American. Congratulations, you've just won the Internet award for redundant commentary. The U.S. is alone in the way it does a lot of things, which they claim are impossible/impractical, while a large percentage of the rest of the developed world, just does them. - Gun Control - Health Care - The Metric system - A political system that isn't completely corrupted and driven by money. A couple of million (dollars/pounds) is sort of average spending for a political party to spend on TV adverts for an election in Australia/UK. The US parties/candidates are expected to spend 4.4 BILLION dollars on adverts for this year's election. [1] [2] [3] 1: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-05-24/election-campaign-advertising/7400826 http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-05-24/election-campaign-adve... 2: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-35687956 http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-35687956 3: http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/08/19/432759311/2016-campaign-tv-ad-spending http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/08/19/432759...

Malician 10y ago

Except this doesn't actually happen. I have always had much better cars riding in Uber, much better service, and felt safer, too. There is nothing good about cabs. I have a list of cab horror stories long as my arm.

stephenr 10y ago
So your argument is basically: the law says X must happen. X doesn't happen, so laws are inherently bad. Why are Americans so uniquely able to have terrible implementations of things and just treat the idea in general as the fault, not the implementation.
- maverick_iceman 10y ago
  “One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.” ― Milton Friedman
  - stephenr 10y ago
    So your defence of this uniquely American behaviour, is a quote, by an American. Congratulations, you've just won the Internet award for redundant commentary. The U.S. is alone in the way it does a lot of things, which they claim are impossible/impractical, while a large percentage of the rest of the developed world, just does them. - Gun Control - Health Care - The Metric system - A political system that isn't completely corrupted and driven by money. A couple of million (dollars/pounds) is sort of average spending for a political party to spend on TV adverts for an election in Australia/UK. The US parties/candidates are expected to spend 4.4 BILLION dollars on adverts for this year's election. [1] [2] [3] 1: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-05-24/election-campaign-advertising/7400826 http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-05-24/election-campaign-adve... 2: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-35687956 http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-35687956 3: http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/08/19/432759311/2016-campaign-tv-ad-spending http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/08/19/432759...