Comment Re:Good point, but Uber is a bad example (Score 1) 432
Where I'm from, there is no competition among the Cab companies. Each of them charges the maximum amount allowed by city law. All of the taxis are dirty, they (usually) drive like assholes, and if you want to catch a ride on a busy night you will be lucky to have one ever arrive. If they do arrive, it can take upwards of an hour.
Taxi companies can complain all day long about how unfair ride-sharing is, but they've forgotten how to compete. All the sudden a new company isn't taking part of the price-fixing scheme and they're upset because the customers prefer clean, on-time, reasonably priced rides. If taxi companies could provide the same level of service, we wouldn't be having this debate.
It's anti-capitalist. Let the market decide. Why do we need all these rules in place to help support a broken (taxi) system?
Edit: I'm from Tennessee, and have experienced this problem in both Knoxville and Nashville.