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With Uber, you already get a picture of the driver, along with the plate number, make, and model of the car. You also already necessarily have a device capable
by moduspol 9y ago
With Uber, you already get a picture of the driver, along with the plate number, make, and model of the car. You also already necessarily have a device capable of calling 911 by using Uber (your own phone).
This whole idea that Toronto (or London, or Quebec) is the only place in the world with the unique insight to regulate ride sharing services with their own unique snowflake policies needs to be dispelled. Many of these regulations (including the ones you're citing) clearly are relics of the past that don't reasonably apply to these services.
Residents of Toronto won't be able to move forward by clinging to the entrenched status quo out of misplaced beliefs that their regulations are future-proof, infallible, or provide any significant amount of additional safety to riders.
- s73ver_ 9y ago"You also already necessarily have a device capable of calling 911 by using Uber (your own phone)." Because there is absolutely no way that calling 911 on the person sitting next to you and in control of a 2 ton vehicle is going to end badly. Nope.
- moduspol 9y agoI guess it just seems odd how taxis have existed safely in the other 99.9999% of the world without such a requirement. At some point it's more about protectionism than safety. This is yet another example.
- s73ver_ 9y agoIt's only protectionism if the existing taxi companies didn't have to do it. In fact, if Uber doesn't, but the taxi companies do, that's also protectionism, but for Uber.