Uber loses licence to operate in London, will still operate while appealing
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Re: Uber loses licence to operate in London, will still operate while appealing
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Re: Uber loses licence to operate in London, will still operate while appealing
#3"Only in the last few months it has been established that 14,000 Uber journeys have involved fraudulent drivers uploading their photos to other driver accounts - with passengers' safety potentially put at risk getting into cars with unlicensed and suspended drivers."
This seems, from a technical perspective, an easy problem to solve with the resources of a public company.
Is it the desperation of people who need the money so badly they will constantly cheat the system? Can you design for that?
Re: Uber loses licence to operate in London, will still operate while appealing
#4Sign up to Bolt. It has just moved into London a few months ago. https://invite.bolt.eu/HPEEW
Re: Uber loses licence to operate in London, will still operate while appealing
#5The article doesn't really explain... their current temporary license (they have been on a temp one since last year) expires at 11.59 tonight, TFL won't give them a new permanent one. This will be in the courts today and they will probably be granted another temporary one before the day is out.
Re: Uber loses licence to operate in London, will still operate while appealing
#6"Only in the last few months it has been established that 14,000 Uber journeys have involved fraudulent drivers uploading their photos to other driver accounts - with passengers' safety potentially put at risk getting into cars with unlicensed and suspended drivers." This seems, from a technical perspective, an easy problem to solve with the resources of a public company. Is it the desperation of people who need the…
I wonder what we could do, let's think...maybe...a taxi medalion with a public exam ? :D
They tried to solve the problem from the wrong angle, and it turns out that the high cost of taxis, while suboptimal for sure, might not be entirely for no reason.
Re: Uber loses licence to operate in London, will still operate while appealing
#7It's from 2017, but this is still relevant: https://www.londonreconnections.com/2017/understanding-uber-...
Re: Uber loses licence to operate in London, will still operate while appealing
#8Sign up to Bolt. It has just moved into London a few months ago. https://invite.bolt.eu/HPEEW
Are you literally shilling your referral link here..?
Re: Uber loses licence to operate in London, will still operate while appealing
#9"Only in the last few months it has been established that 14,000 Uber journeys have involved fraudulent drivers uploading their photos to other driver accounts - with passengers' safety potentially put at risk getting into cars with unlicensed and suspended drivers." This seems, from a technical perspective, an easy problem to solve with the resources of a public company. Is it the desperation of people who need the…
I wonder what we could do, let's think...maybe...a taxi medalion with a public exam ? :D They tried to solve the problem from the wrong angle, and it turns out that the high cost of taxis, while suboptimal for sure, might not be entirely for no reason.
Only if the exam is cheap (not easy) and number of medallions is unlimited. (I got your joke, don't worry)
Re: Uber loses licence to operate in London, will still operate while appealing
#10I know this opinion is not popular but I'm so happy everytime I see bad news for Uber and all these companies that only exist thanks to basically exploiting THEIR workers.
Private transporting is not sustainable and it is not something that has to be affordable for everyone, even less by lowering workers wages or playing with the tariffs by demand. Taxi regulations gives us passengers safety and fair prices. There are taxi apps that work exactly like Uber's like 'Free-now' where you can see your trip, its aproximate cost, the driver's rating...
We have to promote governments that support affordable and good quality public transport, even though I love driving alone in my car.
I hope Deliveroo, Glovo and other companies are also punished for their labour rights abuses. Make sure your delivery guy is payed fairly or either go to the restaurant yourself.
So many years of labour rights fights being attacked by these startups that do not invent anything but base their business model on lower wages.