Uber Must Leave Italy in 10 Days after Nationwide Ban

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Uber will no longer be an option for Italians looking for a taxi alternative, as their courts have banned the service for competing against that very industry. The company says it is “shocked” by the decision and will appeal, but for now, it needs to get the heck out of Europe’s boot or face fines of over $10000 a day.

A court in Rome has just banned the ride-hailing service in Italy for contributing to what it says is "unfair competition" faced by the local taxi industry. Uber must now stop promoting its services and cease all operations in the country within 10 days, unless it's willing to pay a $10,600 fine for each day it remains active after that grace period. While Uber's $70 billion valuation makes that amount sound like chump change, it hasn't exactly been profitable and actually bled billions in 2016.
 
I would love to see the Taxi industry change. Traveling around New York was enjoyable last year taking Uber's versus years past.
Waiving down a Taxi was a pain. I think Uber needs to get a fleet of Model 3 cars and offer these Taxi Unions a way of change.
 
If you're gonna boot em out of the country, how do you plan on levying 10k in fines per day?
 
Uber is just the first...
...in a wave of 'companies' that are out to manipulate younger people who haven't had to fight for better working and pay conditions to say "Hey I think its cool to work like this and I'm cool with being exploited!" so the powers that be can use them to get rid of all the regulations and laws their fathers and grandfathers strove for.

Hail to the new serfdom!
 
TechLarry said:
Holy "paid-off-under-the-table-by-the-taxi-industry", Batman!
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You gotta hand it to them, the taxi industry sure did a good job scratching all the right backs in anticipation of things like this. Seems like a strat they've been planning for decades. Never in my life have I seen an industry so well connected across the globe that virtually every country seems to attack Uber in favor of them.

Which btw I took an uber last night to buy a used car off CL. Click "pick me up", 3 minutes later guy shows up at the curb, nice car, nice guy, have a nice little chat with a fellow IT bloke, reach my destination across town for only $15, easy peasy no problems at all. Last weekend I'm at the casino and I see 3 dirty digusting cabs parked out front waiting for customers, with filthy drivers slouched back taking naps. Cars looked like shit, probably smelled like shit, and I'm sure each and every one of them would have taken the scenic route to get you to your destination all the while the driver saying "no no no trust me, i know a better way". Fuck taxis.
 
Last time I took a taxi, the driver was a complete and utter shithead towards me the second we took off and a total dickbag the whole way there. I didn't even say a word to him and he made it pretty clear he hated me, just not enough to refuse a fare. He was even a shithead about getting out at my stop, which he didn't even pull up to the actual fucking place, but a block down. So as soon as he started up again with the asshattery as I was getting out, I told him if he wasn't a lazy fuck about pulling up to the actual stop, he might actually get a tip. Just paid the fare and whatever change was left was his tip which was barely pocket change, if that.

The time before that, the driver wanted to have an intellectual conversation about the breast implant. Most awkward 15 minute ride to an interview ever.

If that's the caliber of people that can work as cabbies, I'll roll the dice with Uber next time. At least I can rate the driver.
 
SamuraiInBlack said:
Last time I took a taxi, the driver was a complete and utter shithead towards me the second we took off and a total dickbag the whole way there. I didn't even say a word to him and he made it pretty clear he hated me, just not enough to refuse a fare. He was even a shithead about getting out at my stop, which he didn't even pull up to the actual fucking place, but a block down. So as soon as he started up again with the asshattery as I was getting out, I told him if he wasn't a lazy fuck about pulling up to the actual stop, he might actually get a tip. Just paid the fare and whatever change was left was his tip which was barely pocket change, if that.

The time before that, the driver wanted to have an intellectual conversation about the breast implant. Most awkward 15 minute ride to an interview ever.

If that's the caliber of people that can work as cabbies, I'll roll the dice with Uber next time. At least I can rate the driver.
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Pretty much. I occasionally look at taxi drivers at the airports and I always get the hatred look. Bottom line I don't even know how to call a taxi. You really have to spell the address?
 
the problem with Lyft and Uber is lack of regulations protecting the passenger from the driver's lack of proper insurance
 
daglesj said:
Uber is just the first...
...in a wave of 'companies' that are out to manipulate younger people who haven't had to fight for better working and pay conditions to say "Hey I think its cool to work like this and I'm cool with being exploited!" so the powers that be can use them to get rid of all the regulations and laws their fathers and grandfathers strove for.

Hail to the new serfdom!
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Yet the dozen or so rides i've gotten on uber or lyft the driver has been someone substantially older than me (all definitely looked 40+ a couple looked like they were pushing 60s.) I did have a girl that was probably about 30 once though.
 
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