Sentences with phrase «regulated taxi companies»

Uber is competing with locally regulated taxi companies, and Tesla wants to sell its electric cars directly to the public instead of through state - protected dealerships.

The eight legislators contended that state - regulated taxi companies regularly went through such procedures.

I have covered that elsewhere, but remember, regulated taxis companies are prevented from gouging fares during peak periods, something Uber does gleefully and to the huzzahs of certain commentators.

Not exact matches

While it's true that Uber has done a pitiful job of engaging the governments in charge of regulating local taxi regimes — by and large, that's been a key part of the company's strategy — it's time Uber learned to play nice with the cities it hopes to conquer.

Last month, the federal government released guidelines to regulate online taxi companies, saying they should do stringent security checks and not contract anyone convicted of a «cognizable offense» under India's criminal laws.

For its part, the mayor's office says that it views Uber and Lyft as fundamentally technology companies that shouldn't be regulated like taxi companies.

Mac Roberts, the general manager of East / West Management, a New York City company that operates 120 yellow taxi cab medallions, called upon the Taxi & Limousine Commission, as well as New York State, to better regulate Uber and others, telling the Observer in a memorable anti-Uber rtaxi cab medallions, called upon the Taxi & Limousine Commission, as well as New York State, to better regulate Uber and others, telling the Observer in a memorable anti-Uber rTaxi & Limousine Commission, as well as New York State, to better regulate Uber and others, telling the Observer in a memorable anti-Uber rant:

Cab company owners say if local municipalities can not regulate ride - hailing as they do the taxi industry, the state law should at least have requirements that DMV conduct driver background checks, including fingerprinting.

In March, deputy county executives from Nassau, Suffolk and Westchester counties wrote a letter to Gov. Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders asking that in these counties — which have established Taxi & Limousine Commissions — those commissions should have the authority to regulate ride - hailing companies.

No government - regulated monopoly taxi company ever asked about my experience with a driver.

Assume that Uber becomes the sole or one of a handful of uncompeting taxi ride suppliers and all the regulated companies disappear.

If you were injured in a taxi, your claim may be different — you may be claiming against the taxi company if they were found to have disregarded rules regulating the standards for drivers, for example, rather than against the driver themselves.

A Europe - wide judgement on the question of how Uber's business should be regulated is expected later this year, after the region's top court was asked to provide a ruling on whether it's a taxi company or a tech platform.