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For example in france, its cost from 150k to 200k to buy a taxi license

• kuschku 11y ago
  But it only costs 250€ to become a "chaffeur for hire", where people can call you and you drive them to whereever you want. Which is legally what uber is. Uber just didn’t want to pay insurance fees.
  • viscanti 11y ago
    Or is it the 0.86% success rate for getting those licenses that was the limiting factor? http://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2015/07/03/uber-annonce-la-suspension-d-uberpop-en-france_4669011_3234.html http://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2015/07/03/uber-annon... It appears that the licensing process is set to only accept a very small amount of the total applicants. That way politicians and taxi owners have something to point to about how it's a level playing field, and they leave things to a black box bureaucratic process to actually stifle competition.
    • kuschku 11y ago
      that’s different – that’s the taxi license. Uber does not operate as taxi, but, as they can be not directly hailed from the street, they act as chauffeur for hire.