The problem is that in about half the taxis you step into now....either the driver doesn’t speak English....he won’t accept a credit card....or his backseat hasn’t been cleaned out in twelve years. So, why should I force myself to continue to accept this 2nd rate deal for a first-rate price?
Uber is run by Obama millennials, so when they all stop being good social justice warriors, and stop voting for leftists, then I will feel for their plight.
With taxi medallions going for around $700,000 each its no wonder the mayors big contributors want to freeze out UBER.
Uber shakedown. Darling millennials, when you cash their donation check or when they spout social justice slogans. But, let them just try and make a profit without the union getting a cut and they are the epitome of evil capitalist.
Uber might just be big enough to actually make a ripple in the water about the pablum spewing old communists on the left.
“economically unsustainable” to Fascists like Hillary, means the government has insufficient control.
In the real world, without Fascism, Uber is very sustainable, economically.
Hillary is racist. I've heard blacks say that Uber comes to pick them up where taxis refuse to go.
This the ONE issue where we might successfully split some Millenial voters away from the Democrats.
Not Obamacare, not the moribund economy, not pending nuclear Armageddon in the Middle East....
But Hillary might take their Uber away. Their top-ranking concern apparently (sigh)
“Uber is taking its biggest steps yet towards a driver-free world, launching the Uber Advanced Technologies Center in Pittsburgh “to do research and development, primarily in the areas of mapping and vehicle safety and autonomy technology”.
“It’s a massive investment in the future from a company still primarily associated with the development of its app and associated back-end technology, but it’s one that Uber has been hinting at for a long time. The company is keenly aware that the majority of the cost of a journey comes from the driver’s salary, and has been eyeing up driverless cars as a potential saviour.
“In May 2014, Uber’s chief executive, Travis Kalanick, told Code conference that “the reason Uber could be expensive is because you’re not just paying for the car — you’re paying for the other dude in the car.
‘When there’s no other dude in the car, the cost of taking an Uber anywhere becomes cheaper than owning a vehicle. So the magic there is, you basically bring the cost below the cost of ownership for everybody, and then car ownership goes away.’”
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/feb/03/are-driverless-cars-the-future-of-uber
Reminds me of the Diablos Rojos busses in Panama. The gov’t drove them out of business as well. Claimed they were unsafe. Then they promptly started to jack up the price of the city bus.