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The problem here is unfair competition: in The Netherlands taxis are bound by the 'Wet Personenvervoer' (Law persons transport). Uber can encourage drivers to i
by danieldk 12y ago
The problem here is unfair competition: in The Netherlands taxis are bound by the 'Wet Personenvervoer' (Law persons transport). Uber can encourage drivers to ignore the law, because it has deep pockets to cover for legal costs of drivers.
I agree that the taxi market is ripe for disruption, but this is only fair if other taxis are not bound by that law as well.
Another question is if we want complete deregulation. E.g. I would personally want to be sure that the driver has proper insurance, etc.
- ptaipale 12y agoEvery car should have a proper insurance, right? At least here it's the law.
- dagw 12y agoEvery car has to have third party insurance. Basically covering any damage you do to someone not in your car. Insurance covering damages to passengers in your car is a different insurance, and insurance covering passengers in your car because they are paying you to drive then somewhere is different a insurance again.
- ptaipale 12y agoOver here (Finland), the mandatory insurance covers passengers (and driver) also in your car, not just third parties. Different countries obviously have different practices. I can see that this is a problem in countries where the vehicle's insurance does not cover its own passengers. (In fact, the mandatory car insurance here even covers personal damages of third parties at fault if they are pedestrians or are riding a bicycle; i.e. if a bicyclist runs a red light and collides with a car and hurts himself, the care cost is carried by the car's insurance. If the bicyclist hits a tree, the tree has no insurance... this applies to personal injuries only, not the broken bike. Any damage to the car is covered by the bicyclist's insurance if any.)
- aikah 12y agoI bet your insurance won't cover you if you drive around people for profit. Look it up.
- ptaipale 12y agoI bet here it covers damages for the people I was driving, and then the insurance company comes after me for the money if I was in breach of conditions. So it is in the interests of the driver to make sure his coverage is OK. That's just here, of course, different countries have different rules. I don't know those in Germany so well.
- pgeorgi 12y agoAnd when the drivers weren't able to pay up a couple of times towards their insurance, premium will increase for everybody to make up for the loss. Externalizing costs and all that...