Whoosh

FAA is one of those organizations that really needs to be funded 100% all the time

How do you download the app if you do not have internet access beyond facebook?

You need bread and milk? Sure, you need to keep the prices steady for all. You dont NEED a personal driver to drive you around during a snowstorm or hurricane, so you should pay out the nose for it.

Wait, so you'd trust your daughter in a taxi, but not an uber? Tell me how a taxi medallion makes a taxi driver a better driver than someone with a regular license? Uber and Lyft drivers are background checked, so no worries about getting a felon. Also, if your daughter was an hour late getting home, do you think you could call up yellow cab and they'd be able to tell you where she is? Uber tracks both the driver's phone GPS, and the passenger's phone GPS. There'd be little trouble in finding out where they are.

And for your idea about hailing a cab already in route to a similar destination, Lyft already has that https://www.lyft.com/line

Its pretty obvious you've never tried these services

Actually, Lyft and Uber's model does help eliminate incompetent, scary, and dishonest drivers. All passengers are prompted to rate their drivers at the end of the ride on a 5 star scale. Any driver who drops below a 4.6 average will be offboarded from the platform. Can't speak for Uber, but with Lyft, if a passenger leaves feedback about the safety of a driver, that'll also get the driver suspended until the performance team can investigate the claim.

If your Taxi driver is unsafe, who do you report him to? How about if he rips you off? If there is anything that is wrong with the service, from car maintenance, driver hygiene, navigation, safety; the passengers are able to remove the driver from the system

That is blatantly false. Passengers have to agree to the rate of the surge pricing before they can request a car. Also, its mostly the driver who benefits from the surge pricing, as it is always an 80/20 cut.

Since all of the drivers are independent contractors, Uber needs an incentive to have their drivers out in full force on special occasions, and the promise of surge pricing does just that. If New Years Eve is going to net you the same amount as any other Saturday night, why bother driving instead of spending it with your friends and family

Why should a driver need special certification to drive people around for money, when such a certification isn't needed to drive people around for free? Putting an additional 3 people in the vehicle doesn't turn driving into rocket science.

So a collection of child pornography is ok, as long as its a personal collection?

Ryan Block is a writer you retard. He works for AOL because the company he was writing for got bought out by AOL. Its not like he's some executive for the company

$15 will be the new $7.50

A pound is a unit of weight and can correspond to any kg mass, determined by the gravity of the place where it is being measured. Weight is dependent on gravity, mass is not. Welcome to 5th grade science class

Why would they use a measure of WEIGHT instead of a measure of MASS?

Fine. You can stay at my place for completely free, however there is a $100/day electricity charge. Happy?

Live Sports. The only reason I keep cable is to watch live sports. Until the pirates figure out a way to stream live sports in high quality, I'll be sticking to cable. Beyond that, I don't need it