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 hasnt existed for very long, he says. Its 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 dont think the basics of this actual dispute are that serious, he argues. But it does show Ubers general challenge which is to try to penetrate these very entrenched interests -- regulators or the regulated taxi services.
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The state will crack down on entrepreneurial endeavors who are not paying obeisance to the state coffers.
“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 “
Your Honda FIT was not readily accessible by that family of 7 illegal immigrants.
“Nobody that drives or gets rides is employed by Uber right?”
Yeah, that was what they were trying to argue, but they already lost that fight in court. The government decides who is and who isn’t an employee, not the employer.
No sympathy from me. Uber hired Plouffe. Screw ‘em.
Nope.
Hillary.
Right there's your problem. It's an unnecessary and tyrannical layer of government not envisioned by the Founders. And it's eating our economy alive.
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