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How despotic! Lawmakers demanding background checks and insurance from taxi drivers! This is outrageous. Where is muh freedom? I want to be able to hire a taxi
by mahouse 11y ago
How despotic! Lawmakers demanding background checks and insurance from taxi drivers! This is outrageous. Where is muh freedom? I want to be able to hire a taxi with a rapist driver! http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/transportation/article/Uber-driver-accused-of-rape-not-permitted-by-city-6182503.php http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/transportation/article/...
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- dantheman 11y agoYeah, I mean it's like a background check will protect everyone: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2937996/Woman-33-raped-robbed-driver-one-Bloomberg-s-Green-Cabs-designed-New-York-City-s-outer-boroughs.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2937996/Woman-33-rap...
- mahouse 11y agoA background check is obviously not bullet-proof, as it failed with "Esa Alusaimi", but it is so much better than nothing.
- jasonlotito 11y agoThat's like saying driving drunk shouldn't be illegal because you drove home safely that one time.
- istvan__ 11y agoJust wait till an NRA class lobby organization emerges and fixes it for everybody. :)
- Dylan16807 11y agoBackground checks aren't demanded for a thousand other jobs. An evil person could be hiding almost anywhere. What makes cabs special?
- 51Cards 11y agoSeems fairly straight forward... you're alone (generally), in a moving vehicle, under the control of a stranger.
- vtlynch 11y agoThey are often required for jobs that may directly put other people in danger. If you are getting into the backseat of a Uber you don't want the driver to be someone who has had DUIs or a history of dangerous driving. Hairdressers and other similar jobs are indeed regulated in this way - you dont want your ear getting cut off do you?
- smokeyj 11y agoBut the undocumented workers who handle your food, fix your car brakes, built your house and construct the fairground rides get a free pass. I don't understand the mental gymnastics required to support regulating ride sharing before all these other markets. For every bad story about a bad uber experience are 100's of lives spared from people not driving drunk. It's just mind boggling to me. Only blind ideology can make people this stupid. It's like they're afraid of a market solution being orders of magnitudes more efficient than the medallion system. And then we end up with lines like "you dont want your ear getting cut off do you?".
- vtlynch 11y agoOnly blind ideology could produce this mess of a comment.
- smokeyj 11y agoIt's called principled reasoning. Radical stuff man, give it a try. You hold no principle to be true that dictates voluntary and peaceful cooperation should be prevented with threats of violence in order to achieve safety. The only reason this conversation is being had instead of the conversation about background checks on your mechanic is because one sector is unionized. If you don't understand that you don't understand the politics of the situation. Great rebuttal though - shows what we're up against.
- smokeyj 11y agoOf all the dangers associated with traveling in a flying hunk of metal it's rapist drivers. Please, enlighten us more about your liberal ideology.