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This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: Uber And Lyft Drivers Being Arrested

Post author By Shawn
Post date August 5, 2013
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At last check, no Lyft drivers have actually reported being arrested. It seems odd this “story” made it all the way to Forbes without any actual fact checking.

This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: Uber And Lyft Drivers Being Arrested

It’s a long standing contention of mine that one of the reasons for slowing economic growth in recent decades has been the morass of regulation that deters people from doing anything new: doing something new being one of those definitions of economic growth of course. At which point we get […]

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Phones

New York City just approved a pilot program that will allow riders to hail cabs on their smartphones

Post author By Shawn
Post date December 14, 2012
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New York City just approved a pilot program that will allow riders to hail cabs on their smartphones, paving the way for app-building upstarts trying to make the journey as enjoyable as the destination.

This should be a boon to Uber — and stranded cab riders everywhere.

This is great news. Uber and others are truly useful. It has been upsetting to see the taxi industry winning in their effort to stop this type of innovation. Good ideas should always be supported and embraced.

I wonder how long it will take Apple to just build the functionality to hail a cab into their maps? Oh wait, they fired the maps guy and their maps sucks. Okay, I guess Google will do it for us!