Yeah !
I wanna go to the Moon

 

Yeah !
I wanna go to the Moon

When Travis came up with the idea or even Elan Musk first talked about a car that runs without a gas, a lot of people wanted to go to the moon.

Guess what? Travis became a billionaire and Elon sent a vehicle to Mars!

So keep your narrow mind to yourself please.

 

Your idea is not in reality. The Transportation Network Companies wrote the rules and have a large herd of lobbyists making sure your ideas will never see the light of day. Many elected officials are actually terrified by the TNC Lobbyists. I know this first hand.

 

...why on earth the government never took advantage... Maybe they couldn't see the future

When did the government ever see the future??!!

 

I thought about this a lot. The question in mind was why on earth the government never took advantage of this rideshare movement and let companies like Uber & Lyft become giants instead.

Maybe they couldn't see the future and never thought it would become this big.

In anway, here's a recipe to save us all and help contribute to the economy while doing it:

1) Acknowledge the rideshare as a necessity. People need it, we need it and our economy needs it.

2) Instead of giving the industry a hard time, set it free under guidance. Let CPUC design a rideshare transportation license and a trade dress.

3) Make drivers go through a live scan background check and obtain either commercial or rideshare insurance.

4) Set rates that are reasonable for both passengers and the drivers. $2 a mile plus 0.30 cents a minute.

5) Just like a guard card, let the drivers work however they want to work. Open up LAX and design rideshare stops in front of hotels, bus stops etc.

6) Enable street hail. Hire a company to design an app similar to Uber's which stores drivers in the database and handles dispatching all computerized.

You log in just like you do now and work according to the DOT regulations.

7) Charge a one time application fee, let's say $200 and a monthly fee for keeping your license. I'd say $100 is pretty reasonable which could work like a membership and could be paid through the app.

8) Hire people to handle the hot lines for emergencies and driver complaints. They would work directly under the CPUC.

9) Charge a 5% transaction fee per ride. No surges or any other charges to both drivers and the passengers.

I'm sure there's more but let's say there are currently 50k active drivers in California. Those applicants times $200 would bring $10 MM income to the department.

Adding the $100 fee per driver, would bring an extra $5 MM monthly income, assuming the number of drivers stayed the same.

I don't know about you guys, but I would gladly pay 5% commission to haul people around for $2 a mile all day long.

In this scenario we all would be happy, riders would stay happy considering they end up paying much more than $2 with all the surge gauging and the service charges, and CPUC would be very happy.

We all would get rid of the REAL "middleman" Uber & Lyft sucking our bloods more and more every day.

The technology is there, the app could be done for around 1 MM or so nowadays and it would be a much safer platform for everyone.

Yes, 5-6 cab companies would bankrupt but so what? In the end, we would win, cab drivers would win, the riders would win, the economy would win.

The blood suckers would lose. But why? Why nobody wants that? Inquiring minds would like to know...

This already exists.
It's called a taxi.

 

Actually, the government answer to citizen transportation needs was rules and regulations that stifled an kind of innovations.

 

It’s hard to distinguish who the real drivers are, and those that are just taxi shills.

 

When I was like 10 years old, me mum dated a millionaire. One day I got the bright idea. If that guy would just let me keep one of his million dollars (I'd give it back of course, after a couple years) and I would put it into a 6% annual yield account, I'd have over a $100k in a couple years!

 

I thought about this a lot. The question in mind was why on earth the government never took advantage of this rideshare movement and let companies like Uber & Lyft become giants instead.

Maybe they couldn't see the future and never thought it would become this big.

In anway, here's a recipe to save us all and help contribute to the economy while doing it:

1) Acknowledge the rideshare as a necessity. People need it, we need it and our economy needs it.

2) Instead of giving the industry a hard time, set it free under guidance. Let CPUC design a rideshare transportation license and a trade dress.

3) Make drivers go through a live scan background check and obtain either commercial or rideshare insurance.

4) Set rates that are reasonable for both passengers and the drivers. $2 a mile plus 0.30 cents a minute.

5) Just like a guard card, let the drivers work however they want to work. Open up LAX and design rideshare stops in front of hotels, bus stops etc.

6) Enable street hail. Hire a company to design an app similar to Uber's which stores drivers in the database and handles dispatching all computerized.

You log in just like you do now and work according to the DOT regulations.

7) Charge a one time application fee, let's say $200 and a monthly fee for keeping your license. I'd say $100 is pretty reasonable which could work like a membership and could be paid through the app.

8) Hire people to handle the hot lines for emergencies and driver complaints. They would work directly under the CPUC.

9) Charge a 5% transaction fee per ride. No surges or any other charges to both drivers and the passengers.

I'm sure there's more but let's say there are currently 50k active drivers in California. Those applicants times $200 would bring $10 MM income to the department.

Adding the $100 fee per driver, would bring an extra $5 MM monthly income, assuming the number of drivers stayed the same.

I don't know about you guys, but I would gladly pay 5% commission to haul people around for $2 a mile all day long.

In this scenario we all would be happy, riders would stay happy considering they end up paying much more than $2 with all the surge gauging and the service charges, and CPUC would be very happy.

We all would get rid of the REAL "middleman" Uber & Lyft sucking our bloods more and more every day.

The technology is there, the app could be done for around 1 MM or so nowadays and it would be a much safer platform for everyone.

Yes, 5-6 cab companies would bankrupt but so what? In the end, we would win, cab drivers would win, the riders would win, the economy would win.

The blood suckers would lose. But why? Why nobody wants that? Inquiring minds would like to know...

meh, too complicated.

 

The only reason why people still use taxis is because they think those drivers are professionals that go through a rigorous background check. They feel safer with them. If Uber starts to be more selective on the drivers and cars they allow using their app, then surely more people will use ridesharing and less will keep using taxis. Of course that will mean less outsourcing everything to the drivers and they will have to increase their expenses. I doubt Uber will ever change their model because this is who they are: greedy sons of *****es. But I agree that ridesharing is the future, or that the taxi industry has to catch up with the times if they want to stay on business.

 

The only reason why people still use taxis is because they think those drivers are professionals that go through a rigorous background check. They feel safer with them. If Uber starts to be more selective on the drivers and cars they allow using their app, then surely more people will use ridesharing and less will keep using taxis. Of course that will mean less outsourcing everything to the drivers and they will have to increase their expenses. I doubt Uber will ever change their model because this is who they are: greedy sons of *****es. But I agree that ridesharing is the future, or that the taxi industry has to catch up with the times if they want to stay on business.

They Said Fuber Would Destroy Taxi 4 Years Ago

How Many More Years Before it Actually Happens ?