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It's really premature for Uber to claim to be public transportation so the entire premise of the argument that they should do it is faulty imo.
by fullshark 10y ago
It's really premature for Uber to claim to be public transportation so the entire premise of the argument that they should do it is faulty imo.
- tomcam 10y agoWhere do they claim that?
- fullshark 10y agoThe sub-headline: > Ride-hailing companies aspire to be something akin to public transportation, but that doesn’t extend to sharing data with governments. So this is supposedly noteworthy for that reason.
- snrplfth 10y agoI think what tomcam was wondering was where Uber specifically claimed to be public transportation.
- fullshark 10y agoYeah I worded that poorly, I didn't mean to state that Uber was claiming that, merely that the article seemed built on a faulty premise. Uber could very well be considered public transportation at some point in the future and they may claim it to get tax breaks / infrastructure spending etc, but that's way way way out in the future if at all.
- snrplfth 10y agoOh okay, that makes sense.
- citruspi 10y agoPer your quote, they _aspire_ to be similar to public transportation, they don't claim to be public transportation - it isn't premature for them to claim to be public transportation because they don't [claim to be].
- fullshark 10y agoOh, well I meant that Uber shouldn't (yet) claim to be public transportation (and they don't). So the idea that are and are not sharing data is a problem isn't true.