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I am more worried about public safety than consumer protection personally. I know in my city there has been a lot of crime associated with our heavily policed t
by hartror 15y ago
I am more worried about public safety than consumer protection personally. I know in my city there has been a lot of crime associated with our heavily policed taxi industry, the opportunity for these threats to both passengers and drivers exists with a business like Ubercabs as well.
- yummyfajitas 15y agoYou don't think a cabbie using Uber knows that there is an electronic record of them picking up a passenger? If anything, Uber is safer than yellow cabs. But lets suppose this really were an issue. There is a simple solution: charge each taxi a flat $10k/year license fee (with no cap on the number of licenses issued). Use the proceeds to hire full time undercover taxi inspectors. That gets you about 1 inspector for every 10 cabs. Assuming each inspector rides 10x/day (i.e. 5 hours/day riding, 30 min/ride), each taxi will be inspected every single day on average.
- tptacek 15y agoThe safety concern isn't that drivers are serial killers; it's that they're bad drivers and/or using unsafe equipment. That said: your suggested regulation seems eminently reasonable to me.
- yummyfajitas 15y agoI was responding to this: ...in my city there has been a lot of crime associated with our heavily policed taxi industry...