Uber to lose licence to operate in London

Scam said:
To point A, I'm not really sure where Uber comes in regarding a claim of one of their drivers raping someone. If somebody gets raped, they go to the police no? What exactly does it have to do with Uber themselves? Or is this a case of people going to Uber with claims of rape? Why would they do that? "Dear Ocado, your driver in the Apple van forced his way into my house and raped me last night". Err no. :confused:
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In August, Metropolitan Police Inspector Neil Billany wrote to TfL about his concern that the company was failing to properly investigate allegations against its drivers.

He revealed the company had continued to employ a driver after he was accused of sexual assault. According to Inspector Billany, the same driver went on to assault another female passenger before he was removed.
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...ault-ride-hailing-app-tfl-india-a7961236.html
 
Disgraceful government protectionism, all the customers suffer for the benefit of the black cab firms, **** the government.

ubersonic said:
Good news, the whole reason licensing exists is supposed to be to weed out the cowboys.
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Wow the government has really pulled the wool over your eyes. Licenses simply lock out competition to protect the existing businesses.
 
Good.

UBER is very good the system work brilliant and I pay upfront unlike private/black cab rip off.

Lets hope something else comes along to fill the void,

Actually pay taxes in this country
Actually pay the driver a fair deal

UBER could have course do all this except they wont as its American greed in play.
 
If a sexual assault is alleged to have been committed by a minicab driver, the police will contact Uber and request the driver's activity logs, including bookings, passenger details, times and GPS coordinates for the route they took that night/day. The issue which surrounds this, is firstly the timescale that it takes for Uber to respond to action this request, and secondly, as mentioned above, their actions when a driver is convicted of sexual assault.
The main issue from an investigator's viewpoint is that the vast majority of sexual offences that are committed by minicab drivers are towards lone and heavily intoxicated passengers, therefore getting the above information as quickly as possible is paramount.

Whether Uber is barred from London or not remains to be seen, but they need to sort out their communication channels with TfL and the Met.
 
At one point in London, there were was a report of an uber related sexual assault every 11 days.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...ex-attacks-on-london-passengers-a7037926.html

Uber use predatory pricing to try to exterminate the opposition. The passenger pays only 41% of the total fare. The rest is picked up by the investors, ie Google, Amazon, Goldman Sachs etc, who hope to cash in when all opposition are crushed and the passengers have to pay through the nose.

So far, they have failed to do this anywhere where they operate. Eventually the investors will lose interest and it will collapse anyway.

That day is probably not far away with the workers rights judgement around the corner. That could be the coup-de-gras.

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/9a3vye/uber-true-cost-uh-oh

London Prius drivers earn £1 per mile net of uber fees, but less all other expenses.

That is what Addison Lee charged in 1989. You do the math.

 
RossG said:
Also the only reason Uber fares are cheap is because it's hugely subsidised by venture capital. It cannot keep losing money forever.
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lol as if anyone is going to care about VCs losing money on Uber. Yeah sure I'll pay double for my taxi because VCs gotta earn their keep, yo :rolleyes:
 
Scam said:
lol as if anyone is going to care about VCs losing money on Uber. Yeah sure I'll pay double for my taxi because VCs gotta earn their keep, yo :rolleyes:
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You have to wonder why those venture capitalists are willing to lose the money in the short term...

Uber's "surge pricing" is an example of what they're hoping for, except it won't just be during exceptional or highly unusual events but during normal rush hours, during the school run, pretty much any time someone most likely to need a taxi, preferably whilst paying the absolute minimum in tax and relying on the government to subsidise the amount the actual drivers get paid after Uber has it's share.
 
Werewolf said:
You have to wonder why those venture capitalists are willing to lose the money in the short term...
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for long term profit, its the only way to over throw established corporations. its how pretty much all recent success have started.
Uber is in for the long haul and want rid of drivers all together they made this abundantly clear. When they can get rid of the driver and have a fleet of cars working 24/7 with no breaks they will be rolling in money and if they can crush or massively reduce the share for other business in the market in the mean time even better.
 
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