UBER

[Rat Catcher]

I don't like King Fries. It's a shame one can't get McDonalds fries in Burger King or a Whopper in McDonalds - although that stuff is a rare treat for me these days on account of my chronic obesity.

[Taxi driver42]

In Dublin, it is now the norm for a business person to wait 45 minutes or an hour for a taxi. If it rains - unlikely in Ireland, I know - it's even worse

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Not true,3 AM on a weekend night is the only time when there's a bit of a wait and that's only around a gig or in the Harcourt St  area,in which between the hours 3AM and 5 AM roughly 7000 people are looking for cabs at the one time in a Street where often cars aren't allowed drive down by Gardai for fear of running over a drunk pleb.

45 mine not a hope
Uber is not the answer
The answer is take on more taxi drivers
They short 1600 they say
Dumd down the test for a bit like they just did and see who passed

[Belker]

I don't like King Fries. It's a shame one can't get McDonalds fries in Burger King or a Whopper in McDonalds - although that stuff is a rare treat for me these days on account of my chronic obesity.

I used to buy me chips in Abrakabra, then walk across the road to BurgerKing fer me Whopper.

[Belker]

Rideshare isn't in London either so it won't get here by following London, will it?

No but it's their aim here is my point
Ubers goal here is ride share

The uber short-term goal here is Rideshare, I'm guessing they will get it in more than 10 years and less than 20.
The uber long-term goal is Autonomous taxies, I'm guessing they will get it in more than 20 years and less than 40.

[mercenary for hire]

It won't be Uber.Apple or Daimler or Toyota or Vw or any other more reputable brand will make it before them.Uber isn't trusted and just takes the attention off the rest of them as they race to beat each other killing a few hundred people along the way.

[Belker]

I reckon uber maybe merged with one of the big car makers will be the Kingpins at the end of the day.
Travis Kalanik was a loose cannon who rode wild over the rules, but now he is gone and uber seem to
have settled a bit in their ways, or better put, had badly needed manners put on them !

[mercenary for hire]

It's just an app.Car manufacturers with lots of history building cars are far more likely to be successful.

There was something in the paper a few weeks ago about icabbi getting bought by Renault/Nissan but nobody posted it then I forgot about it.
https://www.irishtimes.com/business/transport-and-tourism/irish-taxi-software-provider-icabbi-gets-lift-from-renault-1.3535928

Even General Motors have a good setup.
https://youtu.be/SK_YIQ7TD8Q

[Joe]

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[dalymount]

We need to get like the french,and block everything that fukking moves if the NTA ever agree to rideshare

[Rat Catcher]

NTA have a number of options, I guess. They could lift the temporary moratorium on the issue of saloon hackney plates to entice Uber to replicate it's London service in Dublin.

I think Google is the one to watch as far as autonomous vehicles go but, as motor manufacturers focus on selling car utilisation rather than car ownership going forward, we may see Go Car type services become more relevant in the medium term.

[Taxi driver42]

We said yes to gay marriage
We said yes to abortion
So uber is next bring us inline with Europe
The good people in Limerick demand it

[Rat Catcher]

Where, in Europe, does Uber offer Rideshare?

[Vikkiz]

https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/04/uber-relaunches-a-licensed-service-in-finland-after-taxi-law-deregulation/


Uber is not restarting its unlicensed peer-to-peer service (UberPOP) in the market.

That unlicensed driver option has essentially been outlawed in Europe after the region’s top court ruled in December that Uber is a transport service, not a platform, thereby locking its business into being regulated by existing taxi licensing regimes.

And locking Uber into lobbying city authorities to ‘modernize’ and deregulate taxi rules in its favor — such as by removing permit caps and making it easier for more people to become taxi drivers.

“In the vast majority of the European countries we have been operating under existing transportation laws for years now and were able to scale our business with licensed drivers,” an Uber spokesman told us.

Uber rideshare wont be comin, no matter how much lobbying they do

[Taxi driver42]

Limerick council or Limerick city the home of uber Europe wanted a trial ride share in city last yr
They still lobbing for it
Don't underestimate uber

[Vikkiz]

Well if you read the piece TD42 you'd see that Uber seem tonhsve copped themselves on and as Europe said they are taxi company not tech they must abide by the regulations. If theybarent doing UberPop in other countries in Europe why would they try it IN Ireland