I hear your complaints, and as you said - none of them apply to Berlin. Those other methods of transport currently work within the law, so it seems strange that people appear to think something needs to be changed in Berlin "to improve service" - the service is already fantastic, with the protection of the public!

Yes, you provided a source, but it was wrong. I can appreciate how you got caught out and are now pretending that the test and the license passing the test provides are two different, unrelated things. In Germany you need a special series of tests to get the special license for carrying paying passengers. So yeah, your source was present, but incorrect.

How is this insightful? The law states that people carrying passengers for a fare must have a special license. That's it. Uber wants to have fare-carrying drivers without the special license. It's as mad as if Uber was asking for their drivers to not need any license at all.

The playing field is already level - want to drive Uber fares? Get a commercial license like everyone else.

Then you're woefully incorrect :)

They're not that expensive in Europe.

Those 'services' are private drivers who are driving that way regardless of whether they have passengers. The fare is not profit, but to cover the fuel cost. If said driver was charging more than the cost of the fuel, and was making several trips a day to places they wouldn't be going anyway, then they'd be breaking the law and face prosecution.

Ueber doesn't work in that context. Vorbei would probably be better.

That's still not very civilised. In more developed parts of the world medical expenses will be paid by the same entity regardless of who was at fault, meaning no need for lawyers and such to determine who's at fault, and bankruptcy over medical costs is never even a possibility.

There are public transport systems which can easily do that, and don't require densely-populated areas in order to function. Where I live you can catch a tram on the street which can take you directly to neighbouring cities/towns/villages, or to the train station to other cities/countries. Don't confuse all public transport with your public transport.

In countries with such a system, everyone pays for it in their taxes. It's a constant, manageable amount with no surprises, and costs less per person than under the US system. That means everyone pays the same whether they are sick or not, and the difference between being sick or hurt and not will never cost your house, or even endanger it in any way. Heck, it won't even touch your bank account, as you simply are never charged in a hospital, beyond what happens in some countries where you pay a small fee (~$10) for every visit to the ER. People are also free to get "upgraded" to private health coverage where they can get better rooms, etc., but that costs about $100 per month.

When everyone works together great things can happen.

As knives are essential to feed oneself, so equating them with different, singular-use weapons only reflects poorly on you, not those with whom you seem to disagree.

There you go again complaining about Muslims. You really are a tiny-minded, scared xenophobe. It sounds like you and your ilk would set these sensors off in a heart-beat, as you seem utterly scared of Muslims, of whom you seem to know next to nothing. You are pathetic.

Apart from the more accurate guns, sure :)

Those people are ostracised because they're trying to force science one way or another instead of simply following the discoveries. That is not science, that's simply hoping to have your preconceived ideas proven correct.

Unless you can prove that all blue-eyed people have faster reaction times than all brown-eyed people, you'd still be better off just using a reaction time test. Which is what all of this boils down to - these proposed differences are merely that, and they overlap, can't be easily quantified, and require testing to ascertain on a person-to-person basis, which is the exact same outcome as we have now without this half-baked racist nonsense.