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Doesn’t this ignore all the regulatory hurdles these companies have had to deal with to be able to be that middleman? Uber, for example, has done a whole lot of
by chrisshroba 7y ago
Doesn’t this ignore all the regulatory hurdles these companies have had to deal with to be able to be that middleman? Uber, for example, has done a whole lot of work, not all legal, to get cities to agree to let them operate. I suspect that a few kids in a garage trying to be the next Uber are going to end up stumped when cities tell them no (and they won’t have the lobbying power to make cities reconsider)
- m_ke 7y agoI'm saying that we could use an open alternative for existing services, not that an open solution should have been first. Uber spent a lot on lawyers and broke a lot of laws to clear the hurdles, making it much easier for someone to come in and provide a similar service at a fraction of the cost. There's no reason why someone building an open solution couldn't work with the cities and get their endorsement.