Anyone lucky enough to live in a city where e-hailing smartphone
apps like Uber or Lyft exist should be aware that they are really
great and largely obviate the need to use taxis in any situations
besides street hails in busy urban areas where an empty taxi is
driving by every 45 seconds.
So arrogant European taxi drivers who decided they wanted to
just mess up the use of the public streets for an entire city
because they don’t like competition should have guessed something
like this would happen:
as Techdirt reports, the publicity surrounding their
planned day-ruining strike:
appears to have completely
backfired on the strikers, with Uber signups in London jumping
an astounding 850%. Basically, the “protests” have
pissed off people at cab
drivers and made them more aware of
Uber….Uber had been hovering around the 100th most popular
app in the UK over the past few weeks, but it has
suddenly jumped
to number 3.
Reason
on Uber and Lyft and their many regulatory difficulties in
these here United States of Cartels.
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