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Uber’s California dreamin’ turns into a nightmare
Yahoo Finance ^ | 07/16/2015 | By Bill McColl

Posted on 07/16/2015 12:00:37 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

An administrative law judge for the California Public Utilities Commission is ordering the popular ride service company to pay a $7.3 million dollar fine for not turning over information the regulators have requested. The judge says Uber needs to provide:

* Accessibility information: the number and percentage of customers who requested accessible vehicles, and how often the company was able to comply with requests for accessible vehicles

* Service information: the number of rides requested and accepted by drivers within each zip code where the company operates, and the number of rides that were requested but not accepted; as well as the amounts paid/donated

* Driver safety information: the cause of each driving incident involving a driver

The decision gives Uber 30 days to respond or it will be suspended from operating in the state. The company says that the data regulators want could violate the privacy of riders and drivers and will appeal.

Yahoo Finance Senior Columnist Michael Santoli sees this as a head-on collision between the new economy and the old way of doing things.

“It really does seem like a bureaucratic tussle-- a regulatory agency demanding information from a class of companies that hasn’t existed for very long,” he says. “It’s kind of an aggressive, arguably belligerent, company going against kind of an immovable regulatory structure in California.”

Santoli feels this is also an example of the hurdles Uber faces all the time.

“I don’t think the basics of this actual dispute are that serious,” he argues. “But it does show Uber’s general challenge which is to try to penetrate these very entrenched interests -- regulators or the regulated taxi services.”

(Excerpt) Read more at finance.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Society
KEYWORDS: california; uber
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1 posted on 07/16/2015 12:00:37 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Jeb took Uber to a startup location in SF today.

He’s probably pardon Uber.


2 posted on 07/16/2015 12:03:09 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (SEMPER FI!! - Monthly Donors Rock!!)
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To: SeekAndFind

They may not retain those records.
They may just retain prior information, driver information, fare charges and payments from customers and to drivers, government and others.


3 posted on 07/16/2015 12:03:32 PM PDT by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Government can turn anything good into s***.


4 posted on 07/16/2015 12:07:19 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (A system of government that makes the People subordinate to a committee of nine unelected lawyers)
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To: SeekAndFind

... a bureaucratic tussle...
...a regulatory agency demanding information...
...aggressive...
...belligerent....
....an immovable regulatory structure...

In other words, a liberal dream of a business killing nirvana.


5 posted on 07/16/2015 12:08:41 PM PDT by Sasparilla (If you want peace, prepare for war.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I have always opposed the ADA. This is another reason to abandon both the federal and state versions.


6 posted on 07/16/2015 12:11:02 PM PDT by jimfree (In November 2016 my 15 y/o granddaughter will have more quality exec experience than Barack Obama)
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To: SeekAndFind

You f-—ed up. You set up your business in California.


7 posted on 07/16/2015 12:11:21 PM PDT by WayneS (Yeah, it's probably sarcasm...)
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To: SeekAndFind

California Uber Alles.


8 posted on 07/16/2015 12:11:53 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: SeekAndFind

Easy, leave California.


9 posted on 07/16/2015 12:16:58 PM PDT by PGR88
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RE: Easy, leave California.

That’s a huge chunk of business you are abandoning right there...


10 posted on 07/16/2015 12:18:48 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Why accessibility?

These are private operators, for the most part small-time. Uber can’t equip them, and they can’t equip themselves.

Do I detect the hidden hand of some taxi operators? Or limo companies?


11 posted on 07/16/2015 12:20:55 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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California is in full self-immolation mode. The commies out here won’t be satisfied until they drive all the innovators and successful companies out of here. Then they’ll demand increases in income, property, and sales taxes to make up the gap in what the government takes in. Tesla bolting for Nevada to build its battery plant is only the beginning. Uber is now the fave target of the month.

The irony is that these California companies are mostly run by CEOs who enthusiastically support Dim candidates. Talk about self-loathing.


12 posted on 07/16/2015 12:25:49 PM PDT by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

RE: Do I detect the hidden hand of some taxi operators? Or limo companies?

Which business loses big when Uber becomes popular?

Which business is causing taxi driver street-blocking protests and car burnings in Paris?

The question answers itself.


13 posted on 07/16/2015 12:26:17 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Uber is an app right? Nobody that drives or gets rides is employed by Uber right? Essentially it’s an app that lets those who need rides get connected with those who will give rides for a fee? Either the judge is clueless or in the unions pocket.


14 posted on 07/16/2015 12:29:24 PM PDT by DouglasKC
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That’s a huge chunk of business you are abandoning right there...

Domicile elsewhere and argue, as they have in other countries, they are not operators. They only provide a software platform.

15 posted on 07/16/2015 12:30:49 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: SeekAndFind

Why do I get the feeling Jeb will be left on the curb, or saddled with an Obama devotee?!


16 posted on 07/16/2015 12:32:34 PM PDT by BlackAdderess ("Give me a but a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth". --Archimedes)
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...or there is too much opportunity for Hannibal Lecter to pick up passengers.


17 posted on 07/16/2015 12:34:21 PM PDT by BlackAdderess ("Give me a but a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth". --Archimedes)
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“An administrative law judge for the California Public Utilities Commission is ordering the popular ride service company to pay a $7.3 million dollar fine for not turning over information the regulators have requested.”

How come Lois Learner, Hillary Clinton and all the other Obama officials are not fined for doing the same thing?


18 posted on 07/16/2015 12:36:08 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (It's a shame nobama truly doesn't care about any of this. Our country, our future, he doesn't care)
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California is imploding. The latest is the drought and severe water rationing, but the lefties just think Gaia is sad. I have a friend in northern Cali about halfway from SF to Sacto, and he says the feds are putting up section 8 housing in white suburbia like its going out of style. Crime rates have skyrocketted in those communities in just the last few years. Another one is going up in a very affluent Bay Area community in the east bay, but I’m not going to give them a heads-up so I can see their faces when they pull into the driveway from Trader Joes, only to find a mexican picking through their garbage, or an obama son scaling the backyard fence.


19 posted on 07/16/2015 12:36:44 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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20 posted on 07/16/2015 12:46:30 PM PDT by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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