It should be totally opposite:
1) uber drivers are in lower income than taxis drivers
2) uber economy is new and innovative, while taxi is old and dying
1) uber drivers are in lower income than taxis drivers
2) uber economy is new and innovative, while taxi is old and dying
Most Uber drivers are former taxi drivers, charging less, but making much more in the end, both by virtue of spending less time waiting, and by not paying rent.
3) uber is a taxi company and should follow the same laws and regulations as other taxi companies. Which would of course destroy uber's business model which is based on dodging the law, sorry, "disruption".
Looking at Uber's SEO, they have a lot of listings like "Request taxi cabs from your phone with uberTAXI" on their home page in the source. 52 entries.
Strange for a company that isn't a taxi company to advertise their taxis.
UberTAXI gets you non-uber taxi cars, more or less. That's not their main service, and doesn't tell you whether their main service is a taxi service.
It's just an example of a product with a close substitute product.
I'm having trouble prodding google into showing many ads, but personally when I search for dsl service I see an ad for home 4G internet.
Does that make Uber a taxi service?
Just like how Amazon can sell you a pack of Coke without being a food manufacturer.
Or blogs can bring affiliate traffic to Amazon without being PCI compliant.
Kayak and Hipmunk can get you a plane ticket without being an airline company.
Etc.
There are plenty of definitions of the word taxi in many languages that simply mean a person transporting you from a to b exchange for money.
Doesnt say it gets exchange with the driver, nor are you saying that uberdriver drives around for fun and games. He does get paid to transport people from a to b. The typical business of a taxi service :)
I think them setting the rate of fares is a big indicator they are a taxi service. Amazon doesn't set the price of a pack of Coke, unless they are also distributing said coke through Amazon.
From what I've gathered, the old uberTaxi used to work differently, and that got banned in NYC, since the old version was using the phone as the meter.
3a) as in (3), but there are either no quantity limits whatsoever, or if there is a quantity limit the licenses are valid for one year only and are sold at open auctions at the beginning of every year.
Travis Kalahnick might be an asshole, but I'd take him over Eddie Tutunjian any day.