Can this not be sorted by the insurance? As it stands it seems to be a lawyers wet dream.
Collecting money from a passenger is surely a breach of oneˋs insurance policy, if it specifies you are not authorised to ply for hire?
The point of legislation is to stop these things from happening BEFORE they go wrong. It's no good discovering afterwards that you were not insured in an Uber car. This is why I intensely dislike Uber: they explicitly play on the fact that malicious drivers will casually "ignore" this little requirement and pick up passengers regardless, and when it all goes wrong Uber will claim it wasn't their responsibility. UberPop even more so because it's presented as ride-sharing (read: using drivers wholly unlicensed for taxi services), but in that case any payment cannot be more than a defraying of cost (and again, the insurance question looms: will insurance cover giving someone a ride, and for how long? What if it happens every day?).
They enable dangerous behaviour, and ought to be held culpable for it. It appears the French (and many other nations) have looked through this rather transparent ploy and are acting.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
