So-called "Ride Sharing"
I regularly hear Uber referred to in news reports as a "ride sharing" operation. It's a taxi service.
Methinks it's a taxi service that seeks to avoid the many restrictions imposed on existing taxi services. I see arguments on both sides of that issue, but to pretend it's anything other than a taxi service is ridiculous.
Here in Vancouver the restrictions on taxi licenses have meant that one is worth a lot of money, in the hundreds of thousands of dollars IIRC. Also happens in Canada with food producer quotas, and while the original intent to ensure a reasonable return is laudable, the result smells and it prohibits real competition.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
