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Lol if it was up to you we'd still using candles to protect the waxing industry. Or enforcing that every lightbulb has real wax included. Turos method of pee

Lol if it was up to you we'd still using candles to protect the waxing industry. Or enforcing that every lightbulb has real wax included. Turos method of peer to peer car trading cannot be subject to the exact same rules as rental cars its absurd. Can you imagine if you had to enforce every uber driver to buy a 100000 dollar medallion.

Spooky23 9y ago
> Turos method of peer to peer car trading cannot be subject to the exact same rules as rental cars its absurd. Can you imagine if you had to enforce every uber driver to buy a 100000 dollar medallion. That's an obviously nonsensical argument. The more relevant argument was when Uber was fighting the notion that it's drivers should have auto insurance that actually provides liability protection for it's passengers when they get hurt. Rental cars aren't cabs, which is why Turo isn't as successful as Uber. There's no medallion problem -- a fairly robust competitive market exists, with 3-6 rental vendors at any significant airport and standalone outlets everywhere else. Pricing is driven by depreciation + overhead. Bigger customers are getting contract rates from companies like Enterprise for as little as $29/day. Hell, Home Depot will rent you a pickup truck for $19 in my area. The closest thing to the medallion issue is the right of the airport to demand a piece of the action for commercial activty on their property. That's a different issue -- even companies that flout the law like ride-sharing companies give in to airport operator's power over activities that take place on their property. In my area, Uber cannot pick up fares at our airport, and Lyft agrees to pay the transaction fee.
macintux 9y ago
First, attacking someone for an opinion with "Lol" is rarely a way to encourage civilized discussions. Second, instead of presenting analogies to other industries, why not state what regulations you think are absurd in this instance?
notyourday 9y ago
Nope but Turo needs to be sued into oblivion as an intermediately if it does not enforce whatever is the local regulation on XYZ. All arguments that "we are just a provider of a bazaar space" fall apart the moment Turo does anything other than sell a spot on their listing service - operator of a food court could claim ignorance that the stalls are used for selling oxy only if it does not market itself as "Come here to get your oxy!"

Spooky23 9y ago

> Turos method of peer to peer car trading cannot be subject to the exact same rules as rental cars its absurd. Can you imagine if you had to enforce every uber driver to buy a 100000 dollar medallion. That's an obviously nonsensical argument. The more relevant argument was when Uber was fighting the notion that it's drivers should have auto insurance that actually provides liability protection for it's passengers when they get hurt. Rental cars aren't cabs, which is why Turo isn't as successful as Uber. There's no medallion problem -- a fairly robust competitive market exists, with 3-6 rental vendors at any significant airport and standalone outlets everywhere else. Pricing is driven by depreciation + overhead. Bigger customers are getting contract rates from companies like Enterprise for as little as $29/day. Hell, Home Depot will rent you a pickup truck for $19 in my area. The closest thing to the medallion issue is the right of the airport to demand a piece of the action for commercial activty on their property. That's a different issue -- even companies that flout the law like ride-sharing companies give in to airport operator's power over activities that take place on their property. In my area, Uber cannot pick up fares at our airport, and Lyft agrees to pay the transaction fee.

macintux 9y ago

First, attacking someone for an opinion with "Lol" is rarely a way to encourage civilized discussions. Second, instead of presenting analogies to other industries, why not state what regulations you think are absurd in this instance?

notyourday 9y ago

Nope but Turo needs to be sued into oblivion as an intermediately if it does not enforce whatever is the local regulation on XYZ. All arguments that "we are just a provider of a bazaar space" fall apart the moment Turo does anything other than sell a spot on their listing service - operator of a food court could claim ignorance that the stalls are used for selling oxy only if it does not market itself as "Come here to get your oxy!"