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4/7/2014 8:47:17 PM
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Carpooling/Rideshare is a taxi service?
[url=http://www.dailytech.com/Cities+to+Carpoolers+Sharing+Your+Car+is+Illegal+We+Will+Seize+Your+Cars/article34659.htm]Cities to Carpoolers: Sharing Your Car is Illegal, We Will Seize Your Cars[/url]
All of my wat.
So, if I am driving somewhere and decide to give someone else a lift because I am headed that way, I am breaking the law?
What REALLY impresses me is that this is a "good thing" as most cities encourage car-pooling, ride sharing, HOV and so on to eliminate more vehicles on the streets, reduce emissions, improve per-traveler fuel efficiency and other positive benefits. But, when money and politics get involved? All bets and benefits are off apparently. Can't have someone cutting in on our slice of the pie.
Especially odd/interesting is that the cities that are "clamping down" on this (LA, San Francisco, Austin, Philadelphia, etc.) are supposed to have progressive and green-minded policies. What is more green than putting more people into a single car instead of into multiple ones?
So, is giving a friend (or even a stranger) a lift a "bad thing"? Because some folks are claiming that it is.
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The first thing that came to mind.
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The only bad thing here is yourself.
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Cities should just make a by-law that basically says that the maximum amount of payment for these carpooling services is 7 bucks. Anything more and you need to apply to get ______ licence from the city. Setup sting operations and ticket people who dont follow the by-law.
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This is just retarded.
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5 RepliesSalutations, Camnator! Welcome!
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Edited by Capiton Render: 4/8/2014 12:18:06 AMI don't see how they can legally do this. This would violate a persons rights. Well, maybe I do, especially since it seems these companies have cars and people on the roads for them
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Of course. How else are we going to keep our CO2 emissions at dangerously high levels for the sake of a few people's pay checks?
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4 Replies[quote]Ridesharing -- also known as carpooling -- involves members of the public contacting each other via a smartphone or PC internet networking service and arranging to ferry each other to various destinations for fees. [/quote][quote] ferry each other[/quote] [quote]for fees. [/quote] Sounds like an unlicensed business to me. I think that's what they're going after, not dudes riding to work with their buddy.
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Because that makes perfect sense.
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Btw, who the -blam!- uses taxis besides major cities like New York??? Where I live, everybody either rides the bus or carpools. Ain't nobody got time to go through the phone book and look up a shady business
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Bastards are going to put clowns out of a job.
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8 RepliesI sense the hand of Big Oil in this...
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3 RepliesThat just sounds like a really stupid law. And how do you even enforce it? Pull over every car that has a passenger in it?
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1 ReplyRidiculous.
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But without ridesharing I would never have seen conan in a car with kevin hart and ice cube. Politics ruins everything.
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Typical union crap. -___________-
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1 ReplyUnions are amazing
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Edited by Funkbrotha10: 4/7/2014 9:56:23 PMHaha so its illegal to give people a lift? I wish my city would try to sieze my car for giving my friend a ride. Sounds like easy money.
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2 RepliesWhat about pimps picking up and dropping off their ho's?
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Well that's pretty stupid. They want us to carpool,yet the won't allow it.
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Only the lowest of the low would give somebody a ride. 10/10 law provides more freedom
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People will continue to always be idiots
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2 RepliesThat's not entirely accurate. Its this company "Sidecar" vs the Taxi Unions. They aren't against ridesharing, they are against a private company making a profit off of it. Not that it makes it right, but to say that ride sharing is illegal...
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The taxi companies just don't want competition.
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11 RepliesI don't know, I can see the point. Apparently, they have apps that turn out to almost be a dispatch service, and they are negotiating fares in some cases. So it does become hard to distinguish from a taxi service when you are just looking online for a car to pick you up and pay to be brought somewhere. Not quite the same as riding to work with acquaintances.
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Woe is me. But, perhaps not. Perhaps carpoolers could also form a union! After all, who would not love to be hailed by your neighbor in the morning!?
