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>> Not all laws are in place to mess with Uber or suppress competition, some of them are actually to the benefit of the public. Requiring insurance or having th
by mmarx 11y ago
>> Not all laws are in place to mess with Uber or suppress competition, some of them are actually to the benefit of the public. Requiring insurance or having the driver registered as self-employed doesn't seem unreasonable.
> why doesn't it seem unreasonable? I mean, why can't it be up to the person using the app to call that driver or not?
How could it possibly be reasonable to leave it up to the person using the app to decide whether the driver requires insurance or not, when an accident may easily lead to a third party having claims against the driver?
- vasilipupkin 11y agomuddling the issue. At least in Chicago, drivers are already required to have insurance. Why do they need to have special additional insurance if they are Uber drivers? But, again, in Chicago, the city and state worked this out with Uber and came to a compromise.
- mmarx 11y agoIf insurance is required in any case, there's no choice left for the app user to make, so why should it be left to them? That said, I very much doubt that the required insurance covers comercial transportation of passengers (which uber certainly is), so that explains why they need “additional” insurance covering that.
- vasilipupkin 11y agoas I said in other comments, insurance here is red herring. because the real difference in cost comes from requiring the license for hundreds of thousands of dollars and the city only issues a limited number of licenses