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How is what Austin did good? It dissuades capital investment and innovation. City governments were why rides were so expensive and service was poor for decades upon decades. Taxi licensing and medallions priced out everyone. Soon Austin's city government could easily be "captured" and limit the number of drivers, driving up ride prices and stifling competition. That wouldn't be market demand driving (unlike surge pri…
Are you kidding? They proceeded to create an incubator of competitors with both of the biggest players out of the way. I've watched several of these apps grow and thrive because of the market that Uber & Lyft created and then abandoned.
Banning Google would create a lot of small competitors too, that doesn't mean that's a good thing to do.