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I don't think its a great comparison. Uber has repeatedly broken the law including stealing trade secrets, spying on competitors, and sabotaging them. They aren
by mrgordon 9y ago
I don't think its a great comparison. Uber has repeatedly broken the law including stealing trade secrets, spying on competitors, and sabotaging them. They aren't toeing the law to figure out what regulations make sense for ridesharing. They are flagrantly breaking every rule so they win.
- pjc50 9y agoWell, not all the rules; so far as I'm aware nobody has got killed. Does make me wonder how far people are going to take "disruption". Could a company decide to make their self-driving cars more successful by hacking their competitors to cause accidents? What about hacking your competitors' factory SCADA systems? Possibly with the help of a foreign intelligence agency? After all, this is the cyberpunk future we were promised.
- mrgordon 9y agoHaha fine, no murder conviction yet You could say that incidents like this leave them indirectly responsible for rapes and murders though: https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/28/lawsuit-claims-uber-ignored-attempted-murder-conviction-of-driver-who-later-raped-passenger/ https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/28/lawsuit-claims-uber-ignore...