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Uber

Safety issues are my primary concern. Aren't Uber vehicles and drivers regulated and under any kind of licensing and inspection requirements? Who is doing background checks on the drivers? If I am injured while using the Uber service are they covered by insurance? If the driver commits a deliberate bad act against me is there a legal entity named Uber that I can sue for the bad acts of their employee?

While I appreciate the opportunities for persons with nothing more than a vehicle and the ability to at least somewhat steer that vehicle after engaging the engine and pressing the gas pedal, it would also be a huge opportunity for killers to have their victims call them up and pay them for the service.
 
eloisel said:
Safety issues are my primary concern. Aren't Uber vehicles and drivers regulated and under any kind of licensing and inspection requirements? Who is doing background checks on the drivers? If I am injured while using the Uber service are they covered by insurance? If the driver commits a deliberate bad act against me is there a legal entity named Uber that I can sue for the bad acts of their employee?

While I appreciate the opportunities for persons with nothing more than a vehicle and the ability to at least somewhat steer that vehicle after engaging the engine and pressing the gas pedal, it would also be a huge opportunity for killers to have their victims call them up and pay them for the service.
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No to all your questions. I was a cab driver for 8 years and worked for Uber part time the last two before I retired. You assume all risk inherent in getting in an Ubercar. The are under-regulated, they have no commercial insurance, you can't sue them because their drivers aren't employees, they're considered private subcontractors, and there's no protection for you of any kind.

Anonymous, under regulated, under insured and not responsible for their drivers actions. The should call themselves Under, not Uber.
 
To be a cab driver you have to have a cab license, an airport license, you have to either carry commercial insurance (different than regular car insurance by about 3500 per year per vehicle) or the company you work for has to carry it, you have to pass drug screening and extensive criminal background checks, your vehicle has to meet certain mechanical specs and have your company name and phone number displayed on the cab, you have to have a hood light that signals when you're on or off duty, and you have to have a meter that is state regulated for fares, and a picture ID of yourself with your name, taxi id and DL number which is displayed prominently where the passenger sits..

Just no comparison, sorry. Uber may be cheap and convenient to some, but that's all it is, nothing more.
 
Eggs Mayonnaise said:
All you care about and argue for is the supply side of your fantasy free market.
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There's no fantasy to it. You're just arguing in favor of corporatism, which why would you even do that? Why argue in favor of anti-competitive practices that keep prices high and quality dismal? Why in the gods' names, as a consumer, would you not look up and realize that that system so obviously kicks you in the balls that you should be howling from the rooftops against it? Because you're indoctrinated to believe that government regulation, and only government regulation, keeps you safe? How's that working out with police departments in this country, who kill and get away with killing because the entity that sends them out to commit extortion every day is the same one that "investigates" them when they overstep their very limited authority?

And you trust that system over one that depends, for its livelihood, on delivering good experiences for reasonable prices? You're smarter than that.

And all of that -- all of that -- is tangential to the question I asked you.

You don't trust Uber drivers? Why do you trust regular cab drivers? What is the fundamental difference? One is more desperate for money? That's not an implication of greater safety so much as it is one of greater likelihood of robbery.

An Uber driver isn't as desperate for money because he didn't have to shell out up to $1.3 million dollars for a medallion.
 
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In truth, there’s no such thing as an indie taxi company in Boston. When City Hall limited the number of medallions, it effectively squeezed out the moms and pops. Now a handful of people, like Boston Cab’s Edward Tutunjian, have cornered the medallion market, driving the cost of individual livery licenses up to as much as $700,000. In fact, most of Boston’s taxi drivers have to shell out approximately $110 a day to rent their cars and medallions.

It isn't about safety. It's never been about safety. It is now, and has always been, about money.

Don't be a dope. It's always about control and money, and control for money, when government gets involved with its regulatory claws. Same in Boston as in New York as in Los Angeles as anywhere. It's about the money.
 
The free market solution is safer because it pays for it to be safer. The government solution doesn't give a shit, because part of what it pays for is protection. Mob-like protection, from liability, or if you like the real-world term, from accountability. That's why you see so many police murders of innocent people, as well, because they are insulated from real accountability. Just one of the perks of paying the system its begged bribe. That's why you get stories like this.
 
I'm sticking with you have no idea what you're talking about.

The discussion's already over and everyone's moved along. Do have a nice day.
 
You have no idea what you're talking about and of course, when you proclaim you've won an argument it's because you really haven't and are desperately trying to save face.

Need a band aid for that swelling?
 
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