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EXTREMELY INTERESTING NEW LAW REVIEW ARTICLE ON UBER
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Date: November 13th, 2015 9:09 AM Author: beta abnormal theater pervert https://lawreview.uchicago.edu/sites/lawreview.uchicago.edu/files/uploads/Dialogue/Rogers_Dialogue.pdf
The “ride-sharing” company Uber has become remarkably polarizing over the last year. Venture capital firms still love Uber’s prospects, as reflected in a recent $40 billion valuation.1 Yet the company seems determined to alienate just about everyone else.2 Taxi drivers have cast Uber as an unsafe and rapacious competitor, leading lawmakers to shut it out of various markets.3 Uber’s claim that its average New York City driver earns over $90,000 a year was so hard to verify that a Slate writer entitled her article “In Search of Uber’s Unicorn.”4 And in what some have called “Ubergate,”5 a senior executive stated that the company might investigate the personal and family lives of its critics—in particular a female journalist who accused it of disregarding female passengers’ and drivers’ saf |
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Date: November 13th, 2015 9:10 AM Author: pearl razzmatazz hospital Ljl at polarizing. Only bc of shitlibs. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3043585&forum_id=2#29172389) |
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Date: November 13th, 2015 10:35 AM Author: Turquoise reading party Depends which party gets taxi money. Some places it's shitlibs and some places its conturds. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3043585&forum_id=2#29172810) |
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Date: November 13th, 2015 11:11 AM Author: pearl razzmatazz hospital bullshit. its always libs. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3043585&forum_id=2#29173079) |
Date: November 13th, 2015 9:32 AM Author: boyish roommate "The “ride-sharing” company Uber has become remarkably polarizing over the last year. Venture capital firms still love Uber’s prospects, as reflected in a recent $40 billion valuation. Yet the company seems determined to alienate just about everyone else."
uhh, except the millions of customers who use it and like it? What kind of shit writing is this? Would love to see how public approval of Uber stacks up against any elected politicians, or other corps for that matter. |
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Date: November 13th, 2015 9:34 AM Author: beta abnormal theater pervert read the whole article before commenting, u shitcon. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3043585&forum_id=2#29172514) |
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Date: November 13th, 2015 9:47 AM Author: boyish roommate I did. This belongs in The Atlantic, not a law review. Just lol at the conclusion, too:
Which brings us back to the public’s mistrust of Uber. The company’s name clearly evinces Nietzsche’s vision of a new morality and a new class dedicated to human excellence. But in Uber executives’ hands, that ideal has become little more than a defense of privilege. The company’s leaders seem just fine with a future in which the many are supplicant to the few, and the few are licensed to disregard ordinary rules. Uber’s slogan—“Everyone’s private driver”—speaks volumes. Perhaps the public’s intuitive skepticism toward Uber reflects a widespread sense that our economy should reflect basic democratic values. Given Uber’s size, power, and ambitions, whether lawmakers ensure that it advances those values may shape the future of low-wage work.
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Seriously though, other than piecing together every criticism of Uber that has been thrown out there by various journalists, she presents no real evidence of "public mistrust" or "the public's intuitive skepticism" of Uber in the article. |
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Date: November 13th, 2015 9:49 AM Author: beta abnormal theater pervert explain this:
"Uber is a critical price-setting intermediary, and it may be keeping fares artificially low by compensating drivers in part out of its capital reserves.19 Once the company takes on greater financial responsibilities for safety, as it surely will, costs will go up, forcing the question of where the marketclearing price really lies." |
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Date: November 13th, 2015 9:52 AM Author: boyish roommate What's to explain? They're not pricing below cost, and I don't know what she means when she says "takes on greater financial responsibilities for safety, as it surely will..." (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3043585&forum_id=2#29172591) |
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Date: November 13th, 2015 9:54 AM Author: beta abnormal theater pervert Uber seeks to undermine the taxi business.
it seems unquestionable that Uber aims to undermine traditional taxi service, and it seems manifestly unfair that taxi drivers and Uber drivers can operate in the same market subject to different rules. This is especially true insofar as Uber floods the market with part-time drivers during peak periods.26 Uber may therefore cut off one classic path to the American Dream: that taxi drivers can work their way up the income ladder, from a driver to the owner of their own car, and then to an owner of multiple cars. |
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Date: November 13th, 2015 10:05 AM Author: boyish roommate Just lol at romanticizing the Taxi industry. Again, this is journalism at best, not academic work. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3043585&forum_id=2#29172638) |
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Date: November 13th, 2015 10:11 AM Author: beta abnormal theater pervert For example, courts in Germany and the United States have enjoined some of Uber’s services on safety grounds,30 and not without reason. An Uber driver in San Francisco struck and killed a young girl, possibly at a time when he was distracted by Uber’s app. His insurance may not cover her family’s losses, and Uber’s commercial coverage was not in effect at the time since he was not carrying a fare.31 Uber drivers have also assaulted passengers and committed other crimes—most notably when a driver in Washington, DC, took several riders on a high-speed chase.32 |
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Date: November 13th, 2015 10:13 AM Author: Vigorous narrow-minded wagecucks windowlicker why should uber have to cover gaps in the insurance system?
what liabilities do taxi medallion owners have re driver behavior? |
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Date: November 13th, 2015 10:09 AM Author: Vigorous narrow-minded wagecucks windowlicker yeah taxi drivers (read organized immigrant mafias) deserves tons of money and the medallion owners being hedge funds is surely a sign of an efficient market (and not collusion with the govt to create a cartel) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3043585&forum_id=2#29172650) |
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Date: November 21st, 2015 2:50 PM Author: beta abnormal theater pervert (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3043585&forum_id=2#29225723) |
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Date: November 13th, 2015 9:54 AM Author: up-to-no-good swollen pit Maybe their insurance premiums rise? I don't know why writing has to be so obtuse. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3043585&forum_id=2#29172600) |
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Date: November 13th, 2015 11:39 AM Author: trip gay school cafeteria national security agency doesn't know what the word "evinces" means.
OH WHAT A SCHOLAR
What shit journal published this clown? |
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Date: November 16th, 2015 5:26 PM Author: beta abnormal theater pervert (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3043585&forum_id=2#29195861) |
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Date: November 13th, 2015 10:20 AM Author: Aphrodisiac Spot fuck faggot cabs.
I literally had a guy streaming a basketball game on an ipad that was in one of those suction-cup holders attached to his windshield.
LJL at any safety argument being made regarding any of this. |