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The irony of law abiding vigilante drivers beating up regulation abritraging drivers

throw_m239339 5y ago
> The irony of law abiding vigilante drivers beating up regulation abritraging drivers Who's going to go file a complain? Uber running illegal taxis? Judges looking into this would be delighted for Uber to get a local presence in order for them to file a complain so the police could arrest a few of their executives...
- short12 5y ago
  Wouldn't they just send a lawyer. Even if they did send an executive there is zero chance of an arrest being made
yetihehe 5y ago
Recently I heard a joke about postmen leaving aviso instead of delivering post. If you see him leaving aviso, you can legally beat him. You have his signed proof that you weren't home at the time.
- secondcoming 5y ago
  'aviso'?
  - yetihehe 5y ago
    Written notification about tried delivery of a letter or package which can only be received in person. If you are not home, you can go to nearest post office and receive it there. Sorry, I thought it's english word.
    - deleted 5y ago
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    - tamcap 5y ago
      https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/avis#Old_French https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/avis#Old_French Wiktionary says it comes from Latin. In English "advise", alas, not used in the common language in regards to mail, like it is used in Polish (and Czech?).
      - tecleandor 5y ago
        In Spanish 'aviso' would be 'notice' or 'warning'. Italian 'avviso' is kind of similar.
    - belter 5y ago
      Interestingly not far from the semantics you wanted to convey :-) Collins ...in British English (əˈvaɪzəʊ) - NOUN "a boat carrying messages; a dispatch-boat"
rvba 5y ago
The thing with legal taxis is that the quality of their service is complete shit. At least in some countries. You dont know how much you will pay (their estimates are always too low) and the first questions by the driver are to check if you know the town. If you dont sound like a local, then they will drive you through the longest route possible. And worst: you can do nothing about it. No way to report the licensed driver. Before uber it was like a license to steal. In uber you can give 1 star - so the cheaters dont get any customers + you have some idea of price and route.
- Aerroon 5y ago
  And because taxis are so heavily regulated it wasn't possible to compete with those bad taxis either. Regulation can cement an oligopoly.
- bellyfullofbac 5y ago
  I wonder if we can make Yelp for taxis. Open the app, scan the plate, check the reviews, if they're bad, go to the next taxi. But I guess dodgy taxi drivers would just buy new license plate (e.g. for their "own" private cars) and swap them - ok in a lot of jurisdictions taxi plates look different to normal car plates. Or the taxi driver can be made aware of the bad reviews and they'd have to do a deal with the app user, e.g. a fixed price with a 20% discount, for a fair review. (Rough idea, there are probably bigger issues when you're dealing with crooked drivers).
  - jfrunyon 5y ago
    I know it's normal for taxi drivers here to own their taxi, and therefore be the only one who drives it - I wonder how common that is throughout the rest of the world? Are there places where different drivers might drive the same cab in shifts?
    - pverghese 5y ago
      It's not even normal in the US for medallioned taxis. 50% of the medallions are owned by one man and leased out to others who can loan the car out to others as well.
aerosmile 5y ago
Decades ago, if you wanted a work-when-you-want lifestyle and no boss, and you didn't know how to start your own business, becoming a cabbie was the obvious career path. And cabbies do occasionally experience unpleasant customers with nobody to turn to for help, so you have to have a thick skin to last in that job. For whatever reason, in the US the crowd self-selected towards the immigrant population, whereas in many less developed countries it went towards the bare knuckle boxing type of crowd. No wonder that the latter didn't hesitate to use their knuckles on Uber drivers, whereas in the US that rarely ever happened.

> The irony of law abiding vigilante drivers beating up regulation abritraging drivers Who's going to go file a complain? Uber running illegal taxis? Judges looking into this would be delighted for Uber to get a local presence in order for them to file a complain so the police could arrest a few of their executives...

short12 5y ago
Wouldn't they just send a lawyer. Even if they did send an executive there is zero chance of an arrest being made

yetihehe 5y ago

Recently I heard a joke about postmen leaving aviso instead of delivering post. If you see him leaving aviso, you can legally beat him. You have his signed proof that you weren't home at the time.

secondcoming 5y ago
'aviso'?
- yetihehe 5y ago
  Written notification about tried delivery of a letter or package which can only be received in person. If you are not home, you can go to nearest post office and receive it there. Sorry, I thought it's english word.
  - deleted 5y ago
    [deleted]
  - tamcap 5y ago
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/avis#Old_French https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/avis#Old_French Wiktionary says it comes from Latin. In English "advise", alas, not used in the common language in regards to mail, like it is used in Polish (and Czech?).
    - tecleandor 5y ago
      In Spanish 'aviso' would be 'notice' or 'warning'. Italian 'avviso' is kind of similar.
  - belter 5y ago
    Interestingly not far from the semantics you wanted to convey :-) Collins ...in British English (əˈvaɪzəʊ) - NOUN "a boat carrying messages; a dispatch-boat"

rvba 5y ago

The thing with legal taxis is that the quality of their service is complete shit. At least in some countries. You dont know how much you will pay (their estimates are always too low) and the first questions by the driver are to check if you know the town. If you dont sound like a local, then they will drive you through the longest route possible. And worst: you can do nothing about it. No way to report the licensed driver. Before uber it was like a license to steal. In uber you can give 1 star - so the cheaters dont get any customers + you have some idea of price and route.

Aerroon 5y ago
And because taxis are so heavily regulated it wasn't possible to compete with those bad taxis either. Regulation can cement an oligopoly.
bellyfullofbac 5y ago
I wonder if we can make Yelp for taxis. Open the app, scan the plate, check the reviews, if they're bad, go to the next taxi. But I guess dodgy taxi drivers would just buy new license plate (e.g. for their "own" private cars) and swap them - ok in a lot of jurisdictions taxi plates look different to normal car plates. Or the taxi driver can be made aware of the bad reviews and they'd have to do a deal with the app user, e.g. a fixed price with a 20% discount, for a fair review. (Rough idea, there are probably bigger issues when you're dealing with crooked drivers).
- jfrunyon 5y ago
  I know it's normal for taxi drivers here to own their taxi, and therefore be the only one who drives it - I wonder how common that is throughout the rest of the world? Are there places where different drivers might drive the same cab in shifts?
  - pverghese 5y ago
    It's not even normal in the US for medallioned taxis. 50% of the medallions are owned by one man and leased out to others who can loan the car out to others as well.

aerosmile 5y ago

Decades ago, if you wanted a work-when-you-want lifestyle and no boss, and you didn't know how to start your own business, becoming a cabbie was the obvious career path. And cabbies do occasionally experience unpleasant customers with nobody to turn to for help, so you have to have a thick skin to last in that job. For whatever reason, in the US the crowd self-selected towards the immigrant population, whereas in many less developed countries it went towards the bare knuckle boxing type of crowd. No wonder that the latter didn't hesitate to use their knuckles on Uber drivers, whereas in the US that rarely ever happened.