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What's going on is Uber decided that because it doesn't like laws regulating taxis, it should be allowed to just ignore them.
by emergentcypher 12y ago
What's going on is Uber decided that because it doesn't like laws regulating taxis, it should be allowed to just ignore them.
- SilasX 12y agoIn sharp contrast to normal cabbies, who pick up the very first person hailing them without any discrimination, never refuse a destination, always have credit card machines that work, who completely don't expect you to pay them a dime beyond the regulated rate, are perfectly diligent in working with the disabled, and report every last dime that passes through their hands -- or, whey they fail to do these things, are prosecuted by the city with the exact level of vigor used in the current case against Uber. /s Sometimes it sucks when people ignore the law. So does selective prosecution.
- emergentcypher 12y agoI missed the part where any of this justifies Uber's behaviour. This is just a bunch of baseless conjecture about what you think "normal cabbies" do.
- closetnerd 12y agoI think your problem is that you assume that because Uber might be, in some cases, be ignoring regulations that that means that Uber's behavior is wrong. The law usually not a guideline for ethical behavior. Specially in a country as bureaucratic as ours. The law quickly becomes something that protects incumbents and stifles innovation.
- prawn 12y agoWhile the other companies followed those laws and helped refine them over time. Is there anything Uber have done in terms of improving user experience that they couldn't have done within the same framework offered to every other business? Maybe something to do with branding of cars? A legal taxi company could have created a great app, had some form of driver/user voting, presumably handled payment through apps?