Explain how so ? How checking safety on public transportation, insurance requirements, fines is backward ?
I have seen other comments on windows requirement, tourer fines but I think city government is fully justified while imposing fines on Uber drivers.
Uber will never work out. Following are few reasons :
1. Uber is directly competing against taxi drivers in each city. These are low-wage workers having strong unions in each city.
2. Traffic laws are controlled by city or town. Because there is no single govt. in every city/town , local mandates vary.
3. Uber might project that it is helping local economy. What are taxi drivers ? Are they not part of economy ? There are 233,000 taxi drivers according to BLS. If every common man tries to take share of these drivers , who by the way part of same city/town and local economy Uber is claiming to help, it will result in voilence ultimately.
4. Uber is tanking dollars in VC and select-few founders pockets with false pretension of giving back to local economy. What about taxes on drivers' earning ? That is great loss for city/town in terms of revenue. Individuals are not necessarily honest about their earnings from Uber.
5. Uber has also entered Indian market. India is all together different country and there is very very strong support for taxi drivers in mumbai , banglore etc. Wait until these uneducated people learn about Uber and start smashing every Uber car.
#2 Sure, and Uber has been dealing with this surprisingly well considering the challenges involved.
#3, #4, these are more of a moral attack on Uber as being bad for the populace they serve. Correct or not, it doesn't necessarily mean they will fail.
Finally, in #3-#5 there is a big element of the idea that there will be mass vigilante violence against Uber which will shut it down. This is certainly possible (as with the anti-tech protests in the Bay), but its implications reach far beyond Uber. Violence here represents a data point in a larger war between communities with declining opportunities and declining income and the tech sector. I do not think the mobs will win.
Explain how so ? How checking safety on public transportation, insurance requirements, fines is backward ? I have seen other comments on windows requirement, tourer fines but I think city government is fully justified while imposing fines on Uber drivers.