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I understand where you are coming from, but the question is flawed. All taxi / ride companies must meet some kind of safety and maintenance standards. No matter

I understand where you are coming from, but the question is flawed. All taxi / ride companies must meet some kind of safety and maintenance standards. No matter who it is. Looking back and saying "Taxi companies were also as bad" is a terrible way to dismiss the need for regulation. These contractors should have their cars inspected every n months or n amount of miles by a certified shop. Lyft should also provide a way to allow users to report safety / mechanical problems and temporarily remove that car from service (not the driver) until it is fixed.

isostatic 8y ago
In the UK taxis have a more rigorous safety test each year (more rigorous than the normal safety test all UK cars over 3 years have to have), but that wouldn't help in a situation where it was in an "accident a month ago" Not sure about lyft, but Uber certainly does allow you to report such issues -- certainly more easilly than the majority of taxi or private hire companies. Again in the UK you can always simply complain to the licensing authority -- easy to do with uber (you have the registration and driver's name), but fairly easy to do with http://www.wiltshire.gov.uk/taxicomplaintform.htm http://www.wiltshire.gov.uk/taxicomplaintform.htm Despite all this, entrenched taxi drivers still complain about uber in the UK ("it's too popular and causes congestion and pollution, unlike black cabs with their express lanes for rich people to bypass the traffic")