Abu Dhabi To Introduce New Regulations For Ride-Hailing Apps (reuters.com) 18
Ride-hailing services such as Uber and others will have to register their apps and heed new regulations to operate in Abu Dhabi, a top official at the Gulf emirate's taxi regulator said on Monday, Reuters reports. From the article: U.S.-based Uber and regional rival Careem suspended services in the capital of the United Arab Emirates on Aug. 27 after many of their drivers were stopped by authorities over violations of regulations, sources told Reuters at the time. Careem has since resumed services in Abu Dhabi, although Uber has yet to do so as it awaits clarification on some issues. The new regulations are coming "very soon" and will include a provision requiring ride-hailing apps to register with The Centre for Regulation of Transport by Hire Cars (Transad), its general manager Mohamed Darwish al-Qamzi said. "This will help us to control the market easier by blocking any unregulated application with us," he told Reuters. Currently, ride-hailing services are not regulated in the UAE.
Protecting....what? (Score:1)
I know the Slashdot crowd will jump up and down about how regulations on things like Uber are protecting the ancient business model of the taxicab but reality is not everyone who offers a ride is trustworthy, especially in other countries.
In China, for instance, it's common for people to stand at the taxi line and offer a ride in their personal vehicle--just a way for them to make some money. Seems innocent enough but some of these are total scams: they drive you out to the middle of nowhere and inform you
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Uber, Lyft, and Careen *are* regulation, though. Rather than a random, unknown individual offering a ride, you have a random, unknown individual offering a ride as documented by a service. This differs only from a taxi in that the taxi company is offering the ride and retaining employees, whereas the ride share services are connecting service seekers to service providers (this is the same differentiation between Amazon and Ebay, although Amazon has third-party sellers as well).
Government regulation onl
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"This will help us to control the market easier by blocking any unregulated application with us"
They aren't interested in just regulating what you've mentioned, they're also interested in regulating cost and pricing.
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Probably. That wasn't a point I addressed; parent painted a picture of an untrusted, uncredentialed, unmonitored hitchhiking program where you just jump in a random stranger's car as the alternative to government regulation. My point was that ride share services like Uber and Lyft are the regulation supplying consumer safety, and that governments apply regulation to those to ensure that they supply a minimum consumer expectation at the least.
Protectionist economic policies and central economic planning a
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It's all well-and-good that Uber provides insurance
in most markets Uber doesn't provide insurance.
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Look at how wrong you are, brother.
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