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Uber Banned Across Germany By Court

Posted September 02, 2014 8:05 AM

From BBC News - Technology:

A court says the UberPop service must stop transporting passengers in Germany, but the American company refuses to suspend work.

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Re: Uber Banned Across Germany By Court

09/02/2014 9:52 AM

The way it was done back in my day...

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09/02/2014 9:00 PM

I've got fundamental problems with this, as I do with the latest site that puts travelers with private pilots in their non-commercial aircraft.

Oh, the liability implications in both cases are making ambulance chasing lawyers salivate all over themselves I'm sure.

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09/03/2014 5:53 AM

Instead of Taxi drivers staging protests and traffic jams to object to what they perceive to be unfair competition because the Taxi industry is overly burdened with regulations. Perhaps they should try to have burden of regulations reduced or removed entirely instead of sitting in a self made traffic jam and crying about it.

The Uber drivers use their own vehicles to try to make a living and to make their nice vehicle payments. I say let them work and reduce onerous expensive regulations that stifle businesses such as the Taxi industry.

There is a time and a place for everything. Maybe it is time for union controlled big Taxi business to take a ride. Sometimes organized labor such as the Taxi drivers, garbage haulers and other like them have these burdensome regulations put in place to limit or eliminate competition by making the cost of entry for a new person to compete too high.

I would say to let them all compete and let the market sort it out.

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09/03/2014 9:36 AM

GA...nor should we stop there.

Lets remove onerous regulations for ALL businesses and industries, and keep the relative few that are required for safety and containing pollution, (not CO2).

Once stupid regulations are thrown out, the useless govt agencies that, (supposedly), enforce them can be closed.

Throw in some tort reform to slow down the money hungry lawyers, and we'd probably have a thriving global economy.

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09/03/2014 6:50 AM

Any we wonder why Taxi fare is so high?

$1 Million Medallions Stifling the Dreams of Cabdrivers

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09/03/2014 11:38 AM

Yes, I dare say there is a problem here. I avoid NYC like the plague (DING!! . . . . Bring out your . . .), this being just part of the reason. But really, what the price of these medallions represents, is just another in a very long list of taxes on the people of NYC.

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