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No competition please, we are French
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Derec
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1. Mitigating impact, perhaps. Banning competition to old industries in order to protect them and caving to their demands when they get violent? Definitely not!Does it ever occur to free market fetishists that mitigating the impact of extremely disruptive new technology to real life people ought to be a concern for the government?
2. Given poor service and high so many taxis have, I would guess that most people's empathy with cab drivers is going to be very limited.
Does it ever occur to free market fetishists that mitigating the impact of extremely disruptive new technology to real life people ought to be a concern for the government?
Smash the looms!
ronburgundy
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1. Mitigating impact, perhaps. Banning competition to old industries in order to protect them and caving to their demands when they get violent? Definitely not!Does it ever occur to free market fetishists that mitigating the impact of extremely disruptive new technology to real life people ought to be a concern for the government?
See posts by Loren and dismal for examples of free market faith making people blindly unable to grasp the extreme difference between "banning competition" and using transitional regulations for "mitigating impacts" that can threatens public safety.
Derec
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Where else are they supposed to be picking them up? If the issue is hailing them on the street, my understanding is that all Uber/Lyft requests are done via the app.The courts will have to establish whether Uber is breaking the law by picking up people in the street. I would think if this is effective, both black cabs and other cabs will also use Uber type software in future.
Derec
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1. Mitigating impact, perhaps. Banning competition to old industries in order to protect them and caving to their demands when they get violent? Definitely not!
See posts by Loren and dismal for examples of free market faith making people blindly unable to grasp the extreme difference between "banning competition" and using transitional regulations for "mitigating impacts" that can threatens public safety.
The 'Loren' example actually points to a posts by ronburgundy and the 'dismal' one to his sarcastic post about smashing looms. And Loren at least has expressed support for some regulation of these new platforms to ensure public safety.
And what the French are doing is definitely not about threats to public safety (other than by angry cab drivers!) but about protecting an industry reistant to change.
Derec
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I do not see need for a special driver's licence since they are using normal (and usually their own) cars, and certainly not a CDL as those are for those driving trucks and buses.The background checks seem to be ok, the problem I have is they don't hold drivers to the standards of commercial driver's licenses.
Background checks and additional insurance should be enough.
Derec
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Well it's more legal than the other 49 states, including those that call themselves very liberal.Prostitution isn't truly legal in NV. The only thing that is legal is brothels, of which there are only 19 in the State and about half those are just branches under the same owner.
Well he is at least not calling to ban it outright, unlike a certain Senate minority leader ...Also, the current Republican governor has nothing to do with the 150 year old tradition of NV laws allowing more prostitution than other states.
That well may be but it still stands that bans on prostitution in Europe, be it in Sweden, France or the strip club ban in Iceland, all came from left wing governments.IOW, those examples amount to meaningless anecdotes that reveal nothing about how the parties differ overall on the issue of legalization of prositution. What tells us about that are the polls that show that legalizing prostitution is supported much more by self-identified "liberals" (56%) are than "conservatives (32%), and much more by "Dems" (42%) than "Republicans" (26%)
I do not see need for a special driver's licence since they are using normal (and usually their own) cars, and certainly not a CDL as those are for those driving trucks and buses.The background checks seem to be ok, the problem I have is they don't hold drivers to the standards of commercial driver's licenses.
Background checks and additional insurance should be enough.
My understanding it that you need a higher license status to drive paying passengers no matter what size of vehicle you are driving. It's not just the license for the big rigs you need. (And note that you can drive a big rig without a CDL if you're doing it for yourself rather than for a job. If you turn a big rig into an RV you'll still need the license for that size/weight but not the CDL.