As anyone who's been to NYC can attest, the reasons for [taxi] regulation are blatantly obvious and you'd have to be a complete idiot to not know why any sane government would propose it. But Uber's being Uber...
As anyone who's been to NYC can attest, the taxi regulations in that city were some of the dumbest fuckin' regulations in the history of government regulation.
You know how much a taxi medallion used to cost, pre-ride share? About 1.3 million dollars. Even today, it's in the six figures. Needless to say, no taxi driver on Earth could afford to pay that kind of money, so taxi drivers became a species of urban sharecropper, forced to turn over a big chunk of their hard-earned salary to the wealthy capitalis
It's sad that it has to be stated but nobody has to the right to have their business model survive. Sometimes governments have to break particular business models because they cause a tragedy of the commons. Uber very much externalizes it's costs upon the public for the use of roads, so if a government determines that your business model is overtaxing a shared system then they have not only the right but the duty (to it's citizens) to put a stop to this undue societal burden.
Only a taxi company masquerading as a ride sharing app connector would care about cruising cap. Normal ride sharer go from A to B , and do not cruise around waiting for client. (in fact it is wasteful (gas) for taxi to cruise around waiting for client here around they have dedicated park place where they can simply wait with their motor off).
easy... a driver isn't 'working' for a rideshare company until someone gets in the car. until then they're just a private citizen driving around looking at an app on their phone.
New law: Anyone logged into a ridesharing (or any gig economy) app for the purposes of finding work through that app is considered to be "working" for that company while logged in. Boom, done.
For bonus points, count the logged in time as "working hours" and apply that towards overtime, minimum wage, etc.
cutting down the number of people driving around for no reason is a bad thing some how?
As anyone who's been to NYC can attest, the reasons for [taxi] regulation are blatantly obvious and you'd have to be a complete idiot to not know why any sane government would propose it. But Uber's being Uber...
As anyone who's been to NYC can attest, the taxi regulations in that city were some of the dumbest fuckin' regulations in the history of government regulation.
You know how much a taxi medallion used to cost, pre-ride share? About 1.3 million dollars. Even today, it's in the six figures. Needless to say, no taxi driver on Earth could afford to pay that kind of money, so taxi drivers became a species of urban sharecropper, forced to turn over a big chunk of their hard-earned salary to the wealthy capitalis
It's sad that it has to be stated but nobody has to the right to have their business model survive. Sometimes governments have to break particular business models because they cause a tragedy of the commons. Uber very much externalizes it's costs upon the public for the use of roads, so if a government determines that your business model is overtaxing a shared system then they have not only the right but the duty (to it's citizens) to put a stop to this undue societal burden.
easy... a driver isn't 'working' for a rideshare company until someone gets in the car. until then they're just a private citizen driving around looking at an app on their phone.
New law: Anyone logged into a ridesharing (or any gig economy) app for the purposes of finding work through that app is considered to be "working" for that company while logged in. Boom, done.
For bonus points, count the logged in time as "working hours" and apply that towards overtime, minimum wage, etc.