California Regulator Issues Citations And Fines Against Uber, Lyft, And SideCar
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#2Sad to see Uber lumped together with Lyft and SideCar.
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#3Quite disappointing if they manage to enforce the fines; in my opinion it's these services which make transport options around San Francisco bearable! I'm not sure how many times I've called a taxi to come get me and never showing up...
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#4I'm not surprised they're going after Lyft and SideCar. These services scare me. Drivers are usually friendly, but far from the professionals I get with Uber. Some of these services don't even provide proper insurance. It will be interesting to see what happens when one of these drivers gets in an accident.
Uber, on the other hand, looks completely legitimate to me. They partner with licensed and insured companies and provide an awesome experience.
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#5I'm not surprised they're going after Lyft and SideCar. These services scare me. Drivers are usually friendly, but far from the professionals I get with Uber. Some of these services don't even provide proper insurance. It will be interesting to see what happens when one of these drivers gets in an accident. Uber, on the other hand, looks completely legitimate to me. They partner with licensed and insured companies an…
The problem with Lyft and SideCar is the liability. It's essentially hitchhiking, which is fun, but rightfully scary.
Both are one lawsuit away from oblivion.
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#6I'm not surprised they're going after Lyft and SideCar. These services scare me. Drivers are usually friendly, but far from the professionals I get with Uber. Some of these services don't even provide proper insurance. It will be interesting to see what happens when one of these drivers gets in an accident. Uber, on the other hand, looks completely legitimate to me. They partner with licensed and insured companies an…
I've been using Lyft for the last month and it has been a great product. Though it's not as flashy as Uber, it is also considerably cheaper, even cheaper then a taxi. I'd rather the friendly Lyft drivers over the unprofessional taxi drivers of SF.
Lyft also has 1MM liability on each driver so nothing about them feels sketchy. [1]
My only complaint is they don't have enough drivers and so I can't always get a lift.
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#7Mixed feelings about this, but ultimately I'm angrier at the government than any of these companies.
I used sidecar a couple of times in SF and the experience was pretty mixed. It definitely feels sketchy when someone swings by in a Corolla, and it does very much feel like "ride sharing" in the truest sense of the word, with the unmistakable feel of a taxi also. Bizarre.
I much prefer Uber, but the pricing speaks for itself.
I'm not going to complain about the specifics of the enforcement action - no matter which way you slice it SideCar and Lyft most certainly were diving through loopholes. They are meant as a taxi service, no matter how hard they avert their eyes and insist the opposite.
But, and this is a huge but. The taxi experience in San Francisco is horrific - easily the worst out of any city I've ever lived in, and by a wide margin to boot. MUNI is also a perennial joke of a transit system. In a city as dense as San Francisco, dear government, with no functioning taxicab service and no functioning public transit system, how do you expect people to get around?
Uber, Lyft, and SideCar are born from the supremely fucked-upery of SF's transportation situation. Liability, driver training, and all of that are all legitimate questions, but IMO are separate from the question of whether or not these services should exist in the first place.
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#8I read somewhere recently that 80% of all stranger rapes against women are perpetrated by unlicensed taxi drivers.
So I am glad that these services are under a somewhat watchful eye.
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#9Can I fine the CPUC for being hopelessly out-of-date in its strategies for protecting customers?
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#10I read somewhere recently that 80% of all stranger rapes against women are perpetrated by unlicensed taxi drivers. So I am glad that these services are under a somewhat watchful eye.
So is the problem Uber / Lyft / whatever, or is problem a lack of licensed taxis? If there were more licensed taxis available, women wouldn't have to take a shady unlicensed cab.