

  (Source: LA Times)


I. Carpooling Gets Digital Era Makeover



[Image Source: Uber]



Uber, Lyft, and Sidecar


Ridesharing celebration
Ridesharing supporters celebrate CPUC's decision not to ban carpooling for cash.
[Image Source: Lyft]

Elsewhere, the trio are proving less lucky.  



II. Philadelphia Shows Sidecar Drivers no "Brotherly Love"



Sidecar infographic






III. Gotta Ban 'em All


Sidecar mirror





Taxicab protest








Lyft Lands





Lyft is banned






Yellow Cab


New technology does not eliminate well-established legal principles.
Uber accident






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Ride Sharing
By iglick on 4/6/2014 1:49:21 AM , Rating: 1
The Ride Shares are not true Ride Shares. They are not really part of the Sharing Community. They charge significantly more than their expenses. They are clearly making a profit. They are running a business. They are running illegal Taxicabs.

I am philosophically against these TNCs just because of their arrogance about obeying The Rule of Law. If you have a great innovation for a business, but it is illegal, you work to change the law, but don’t break the just because you are a Billionaire. I love the Technology in itself; of course I proposed the concept 15 years ago.

TNCs have been breaking City, County, State, and Federal Laws especially, especially the no texting and Driving Laws. At least One Child has been killed by a texting TNC Driver. Now they complain when Government enforces the Laws. They complain when Government passes Laws to legalize them. They complain they asked to show proof of Insurance. Now they are suing Cab Drivers for trying to level the playing field.
This is like the Prostitute Suing the Housewife for loss of income, because a Husband is having Sex with his Wife for free instead of paying the Hooker. Does this mean that a TNC is nothing more than a Billion Dollar Brothel which takes it cut of the Service Fees?
In a City where TNC Drivers have had their cars seized for operating illegal Taxicabs. If you are committing a Crime you have to face the consequences of your crime. If you want to change the Law I am sure those Billion Dollar Companies you drive for can buy the votes to change them.

RE: Ride Sharing
By bigolbitties on 4/7/2014 2:50:58 AM , Rating: 3
You're an idiot. Your idiotic hooker example is a testament to that. You're a wolf in sheep clothing trying to pretend that you're for the greater good.

People hate cabs, with a passion, because they suck. Plain and simple. The TNC's have about as much insurance as cabs do,the driver must be insured, whatever their insurance wont cover the TNC collision insurance will, and there's the overall general liability insurance. So there is insurance. Is it perfect? No. Because pea brains like you and the insurance companies don't want to make it work. It's illegal because idiots like you want it to be. The TNC's are trying to find a way to make it all legal but can't get any help from the true billion dollar lobbyists which are the cab and insurance companies that are in bed with each other. That's fact not fiction. They've been making tons of cash sans innovation or investment for years and the PUBLIC is waking up to that.

