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> If Uber is allowed to work at lower limitations than the Taxi businesses, it will be a distortion of competition. Let's stop talking about "competition". The
by gioele 12y ago
> If Uber is allowed to work at lower limitations than the Taxi businesses, it will be a distortion of competition.
Let's stop talking about "competition". The issue here is "the regulations". Are they too broad? Or too narrow? Or ineffective? Or inadequate? Or just fine?
It Uber is allowed to work at lower limitations than the Taxi businesses, then either the Taxi business is too regulated (then some regulations should be dropped) or Uber is taking shortcuts somewhere damaging the costumers or the workers (the reason why the regulations exist in the first place).
I think that, if the current regulations are justified (and this is to be seen place by place), then there is no other outcome other than Uber becoming simply yet another Taxi company, maybe the one with the nicest website.
- einrealist 12y agoIts both - competition and regulation. If one company does not follow them, but others do, then you have a distortion of competition. The difficulty is in to tell whether Uber is operating like a Taxi company or not. They certainly operate on a different model than the usual Taxi business. So that's why Uber ignored the laws until someone cried foul. Btw. I think the business is regulated fairly. The income is not. Most difficulties are with the concessions and the natural oligopols around them.