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App taxis aren’t ride sharing. Ride sharing is letting normal people earn money by sharing their car. In e.g. Spain IIRC Uber is just a front end for the taxis

by Laaas 2y ago

App taxis aren’t ride sharing. Ride sharing is letting normal people earn money by sharing their car. In e.g. Spain IIRC Uber is just a front end for the taxis.

raverbashing 2y ago
> Spain IIRC Uber is just a front end for the taxis. It isn't. In some places yes, but not in Spain
elric 2y ago
What's the difference between a taxi driver and a "normal person" in this story? They're both making money from driving a person from A to B. Sounds to me like they should both follow the same rules.
- jv95 2y ago
  In germany the difference would be the license to transport other people. At least that was named as the issue when Uber initially wanted to expend to Germany.
piva00 2y ago
Letting people share their cars for riding incur increased risks, at least insurance should be different from a family's car who has the usual riders and the odd trip with other people vs a car which is being share with hundreds to thousands of different riders each month. How do you, as a government, ask for a different insurance class in this case? Regulation. Same with Airbnb, having some guests over from time to time it's just usual life, hosting people to make money is a business and the business of hosting people has different rules than having a guest at home. We can debate if such rules should be relaxed, if they make sense or need to be updated, etc., but these rules were created out of necessity through time, just allowing some tech company to completely sideline it because "it's tech!" is absurd...
CaptainOfCoit 2y ago
> Ride sharing is letting normal people earn money by sharing their car What startups/companies/apps that people use in the US (which I guess is where you're from?) allow people to do this without treating it as a job or a side-job? > In e.g. Spain IIRC Uber is just a front end for the taxis. It is not, and if you take a moment to read up on the history of Uber in Spain, you'd clearly see that that's not the case. There has literally been violent protests about just this thing.

by Laaas 2y ago

App taxis aren’t ride sharing. Ride sharing is letting normal people earn money by sharing their car. In e.g. Spain IIRC Uber is just a front end for the taxis.

raverbashing 2y ago

> Spain IIRC Uber is just a front end for the taxis. It isn't. In some places yes, but not in Spain

elric 2y ago

What's the difference between a taxi driver and a "normal person" in this story? They're both making money from driving a person from A to B. Sounds to me like they should both follow the same rules.

jv95 2y ago
In germany the difference would be the license to transport other people. At least that was named as the issue when Uber initially wanted to expend to Germany.

piva00 2y ago

Letting people share their cars for riding incur increased risks, at least insurance should be different from a family's car who has the usual riders and the odd trip with other people vs a car which is being share with hundreds to thousands of different riders each month. How do you, as a government, ask for a different insurance class in this case? Regulation. Same with Airbnb, having some guests over from time to time it's just usual life, hosting people to make money is a business and the business of hosting people has different rules than having a guest at home. We can debate if such rules should be relaxed, if they make sense or need to be updated, etc., but these rules were created out of necessity through time, just allowing some tech company to completely sideline it because "it's tech!" is absurd...

CaptainOfCoit 2y ago

> Ride sharing is letting normal people earn money by sharing their car What startups/companies/apps that people use in the US (which I guess is where you're from?) allow people to do this without treating it as a job or a side-job? > In e.g. Spain IIRC Uber is just a front end for the taxis. It is not, and if you take a moment to read up on the history of Uber in Spain, you'd clearly see that that's not the case. There has literally been violent protests about just this thing.