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Uber's tactics here are really nothing short of disgusting.
by ztratar 10y ago
Uber's tactics here are really nothing short of disgusting.
- chinathrow 10y agoThis. And people using them to hail a ride should really reconsider if they want to support a business like this. I don't.
- gkop 10y agoThis is HN; Hey Uber employees, there are other, better jobs for you. Think about it <3
- unclebucknasty 10y agoThat's what bugs me. I'm with you on that, but it seems the overwhelming majority of people just don't care about such "externalities" or ethical issues if their lives can be made a little more convenient or they can save a buck.
- Tempest1981 10y agoScott Adams has it right: http://dilbert.com/strip/2007-05-01 http://dilbert.com/strip/2007-05-01 Uber has become too convenient to quit, it seems.
- conanbatt 10y agoIts noticeable for me how visceral the reaction to disobeying government is for lots of people. But i think its important to have actors that do it. Argentina had an Uber-copy cat that played very nice with regulators: from day one they were working with officials and lawyers and were totally legal. They started to pick up demand and the gov. suddently passed a law specifically banning a way to ask cabs that only affected that company. They were crushed by the state one day to another, when they played as nice as they could have. AFter that I realize that Uber's strategy is necessary. The guys that played nice got their assess kicked.
- concinds 10y ago> Its noticeable for me how visceral the reaction to disobeying government is for lots of people. But i think its important to have actors that do it. True. What about Bitcoin entrepreneurs? A cavalier attitudes towards laws isn't something inherently bad, or "immoral".
- Apocryphon 10y agoThere's different degrees to disobeying government. There's disobeying regulation that protects rent-seeking entrenched dinosaur industries. And there's disobeying rules that protect pedestrians from being run over by red-light speeding autonomous vehicles.
- nerfhammer 10y agoI can choose whether uber is a suitable replacement for a regular cab for myself. But I can't choose whether I would or would not like to share a crosswalk with one of their self-driving cars.
- conanbatt 10y agoI cant choose to ban cars completely off the streets, even though they pose a real danger to me and an economic cost.
- aianus 10y agoPaying $150 and getting a piece of paper doesn't do anything to protect pedestrians.
- Apocryphon 10y agoYou're right. If anything, the DMV needs to put greater oversight on Uber, especially after the red light speeding accident. Paying $150 and submitting itself into the permit application process is only the beginning.
- r00fus 10y ago
- pfarnsworth 10y agoWhat are your thoughts on the tens of thousands of San Franciscans who do renovations on their homes without getting permits from the city? Are they disgusting as well?
- username223 10y agoThat depends -- do those renovations have a chance of harming other people? If you add stuff to your house that's not up to code, sell it to someone, and that person dies as a result, then yes, you're disgusting. If you use your wealth to change building codes so you're not responsible for that person's death, you're even more disgusting.
- pfarnsworth 10y agoYou do realize that the permit is just a cash grab. They don't inspect the car, do any sort of analysis, etc. It's just paperwork. That's all. You really support that kind of mindnumbingly stupid bureaucracy?
- username223 10y agoSo the DMV "grabbed" $100 from some bros burning billions of venture cash. They can probably find that in the couch with one hand during commercials.