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Uber owns the thing that the taxi companies don't have, a complex, real time transactional application that pairs drivers with riders. They can pick and choose
by subsubzero 2y ago
Uber owns the thing that the taxi companies don't have, a complex, real time transactional application that pairs drivers with riders. They can pick and choose who they want using it(sans discriminatory, see - illegal checks). And they are well within their means to say when a driver can and can't work on their own platform. If drivers want to be rid of this menace - Uber, then they are free to become cab drivers if they wish. Or use Lyft. Nobody gets paid for not producing which is what these drivers seem to want.
- PNWChris 2y agoIs this the case? I was under the impression that Uber has to act as a pure play buyer-seller matching system. Otherwise the drivers aren’t independent contractors, they’re being controlled like employees.
- gruez 2y agoThat was the case before NYC instituted laws that mandated drivers be paid for idle time, converting them to basically employees.
- larkost 2y agoThat is a great argument... but one that has not yet completed its way though U.S. courts. My understanding is that both Uber and Lift vary the arrangement from market-to-market (sometimes within a country, but mostly between countries), but that at least in the U.S. the drivers have no ability to set their prices at all, but rather only have the ability to accept/decline a ride that has a price already attached. And if they decline too many rides (as defined by opaque decisions by the companies), that they then are penalized by being shown less possible rides. To me this is a worst combination of being an employee and a true independent contractor.
- evanb 2y agoT+LC cabs use Curb, which can call taxis and be used only as a payment method. https://www.gocurb.com/ https://www.gocurb.com/