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25.01.2022 "Uber And Lyft Take A Lot More From Drivers Than They Say" ... well finally the light has switched on for some. Just one more reason to prefer grabbing a cab or driving a cab. https://bit.ly/2KUDl6U

24.01.2022 "Forget The New ABC Series, Heres The REAL Diary Of An Uber Driver ... why would why would the ABC explicitly name a TV series after a private global corporation? ... An even bigger concern is that the series will whitewash, even glamorise, a highly exploitative employment practice whose legitimacy and even legality is under siege in courtrooms and parliaments around the world." Theyre a couple of great questions from Jim Stanford that our national broadcaster should have to seriously answer. https://bit.ly/2FEhr5P

23.01.2022 "Uber and Lyft’s Business Model May Be Dead. Good." ... pretty much sums up the Uber & Lyft business model and why nobody should care if too much if they run out of schmucks to keep tipping in money to prop them up. https://bit.ly/3gi1mkE

20.01.2022 "Autonomous Mobility And The Mythical Mass Market ... Automotive providers are desperately vying for a piece of the mass market for transporting people in car ... [However] the real market opportunity lies in niche markets and applications." https://bit.ly/2HCaEd3

20.01.2022 "Fully driverless Waymo taxis are due out this year, alarming critics" ... with huge dollars at stake and so many big companies breaking their necks to be first, its hard to imagine that some real people wont end up getting hurt, or worse, as Governments allow corporate profits to take priority over public safety. https://bit.ly/2xS8fGd

19.01.2022 "With food-delivery apps like Uber Eats, who’s actually making money?" ... sadly it appears the answer is nobody, they're just not profitable business models. https://to.pbs.org/3dJrS5i

19.01.2022 "Internal data shows Ubers reputation hasnt changed much since #DeleteUber". What a shame ... all that money spent building a new facade for uber and it hasnt really convinced anyone? https://wapo.st/2PAHIIO

19.01.2022 "Setback for $1.3 Billion Uber Tax Suit as Court Denies Costs Bid" ... the ATIA was quick to take up the issue of Uber trips being treated the same as taxi trips by the ATO for GST purposes in 2014/15. Chasing them for back taxes in the UK is looking a way harder approach. https://bloom.bg/2XoCdN9

19.01.2022 "With food-delivery apps like Uber Eats, whos actually making money?" ... sadly it appears the answer is nobody, theyre just not profitable business models. https://to.pbs.org/3dJrS5i

18.01.2022 "Taxi drivers picket at LAX, asking city officials to reinstate curbside pickups" ... in trying to deal with congestion on its terminal roads the airport seems to have forgotten completely about people with disability, the elderly, people struggling with extra luggage or travelling with young children ... its simply not good enough and taxi drivers are right to complain on behalf of themselves and the wider community. https://lat.ms/2T1OaIR

17.01.2022 "The Myth Of Substitution And The Mirage Of Driverless Cars ... Rather than replacing drivers completely, AI will be used to make driving easier, safer and more enjoyable." https://bit.ly/2MN0RoG

17.01.2022 "How Uber and Lyft battled Seattle over minimum wage for drivers" ... it seems that big corporates may be able to buy research results but theyre not worth anything when not believable. Well done Seattle for commissioning independent academics to undertake their research! And much better than the Victorian Government that just held an inquiry into Gig Workers which basically concluded that solving the problem belongs to somebody else (the Federal Government), plus creating lots of extra bureaucracy ... sigh. https://cnet.co/3hcNKsb

17.01.2022 "The Automotive Industrys Moment Of Truth Has Arrived" ... may be so, but perhaps not. The future does indeed look as though it will favour fully electric cars and the manufacturers that can produce them at scale. However, that view necessarily discounts the prospects of alternate technologies, including hydrogen fuelled vehicles. How the future plays out could well depend on how tech currently undeveloped or in its infancy takes shape. https://bit.ly/36zUOsW

16.01.2022 "How Australian transport authorities played cat and mouse with Ubers Greyball ... Uber was identifying and blocking investigators using a spyware program". The 4 Corners report looks bad for Uber but its also a sad indictment on some State Government transport agencies. What a difference a little more determination and commitment could have made ... https://ab.co/2HsWxYP

16.01.2022 "The end of Chinas ridesharing gig" ... it seems that the Chinese Government has had a big rethink about its relaxing of regulatory safeguards that protected the well-being of passengers and drivers. Of course, thats hardly surprising because policies that allow corporate profits to be put ahead of public safety are always going to end badly and so need to be changed. Fortunately in Australia, and notwithstanding the huge disruptions to markets in recent years, taxis never abandoned their commitment to safety as a No 1 priority. https://tcrn.ch/2SXBAaU

14.01.2022 "Nearly 30 years after the ADA, the USAs transit agencies report successes and shortfalls ... Its a total mixed bag ...". The Australian taxi industrys commitment to people with disability, with 10% of the national taxi fleet being wheelchair accessible and targeting the same response times for those vehicles as sedan taxis, looks pretty good by comparison. https://wapo.st/2ZWB4ym

14.01.2022 "Can California rein in techs gig platforms?" ... The Washington Posts report by Eli Rosenberg (15 Jan 2020) does a great job summarising the relevant history of Assembly Bill 5 (AB5) and whats at stake in 2020 as the law confronts its real test - working on the street to hold gig platforms to proper account. https://wapo.st/2NQ52is

14.01.2022 "Survival For Airlines, Hotels And Restaurants May Hinge On The Work Of Their Low-Paid Cleaning Teams" ... and taxis, although probably not the "low-paid" part. Passengers will also be expecting their taxis to be clean ... and Australian taxi companies have already stepped up their game with the introduction of vehicle sanitisation stations and new procedures for routine cleaning. https://bit.ly/2WsdUODhttps://bit.ly/2WsdUOD

13.01.2022 Three Tech Trends Helping Driverless Cars - autonomous assistance in the early years ... (1) AI learning, (2) remote operational controls, and (3) in-car driver monitoring. Before driverless vehicles get really safe ... they still look pretty scary ... or maybe "scary safe"?. https://bit.ly/2Pvgf6D

12.01.2022 "This chart shows why robot taxis are coming sooner than we might think" ... so they are still quite some distance away, but look out because that distance is being traversed at an increasingly rapid rate. https://bit.ly/2OezukP

12.01.2022 "Uber used secret spyware to try to crush Australian start-up GoCatch ... A former senior Uber employee has told Four Corners that the idea behind the use of the Surfcam spyware was to starve GoCatch of drivers." So where was the ACCC when this was happening - off having a long lunch with ASIC or something? https://ab.co/2Y5JlOF

11.01.2022 "5 Transportation Technologies That Will Boom Or Bust In 2019" ... no matter which way the tech goes, 2019 is likely to be a big year for taxis. https://bit.ly/2QfXvYC

10.01.2022 "Read This Before Investing in Uber and Lyft IPOs ... Right now, Uber has made congestion worse. It isnt as efficient as taxis." Congestion is like a huge hole and ride-sourcing a shovel ... sadly its making the problem worse while pretending to make it better. https://bit.ly/2ReiYl0

09.01.2022 "New Scam Puts Unchecked Rideshare Drivers Behind the Wheel" ... if its happening in the US, its probably happing DownUnder as well? https://bit.ly/2QPEq0W

09.01.2022 "The Quiet Death of the Gig Economy ... promoted as providing the flexibility and independence that traditional jobs dont offer. But in 2019, if anything they seem like scams for the destitute, desperate and debt-ridden. I feel a bit nervous about how manipulative an Uber driver can be just to earn an extra buck. Maybe its not a Gig economy but kind of like another form of slavery given a pretty name." https://bit.ly/2TKvNpe https://bit.ly/2CeUzpY

08.01.2022 "Nearly 30 years after the ADA, the USA’s transit agencies report successes and shortfalls ... It’s a total mixed bag ...". The Australian taxi industry's commitment to people with disability, with 10% of the national taxi fleet being wheelchair accessible and targeting the same response times for those vehicles as sedan taxis, looks pretty good by comparison. https://wapo.st/2ZWB4ym

08.01.2022 "Uber loses landmark case over worker rights, entitling UK drivers to minimum wage and sick leave" ... soooo does that mean Uber will finally have to take responsibility for the obligations it owes to its drivers? Nah ... there is yet one last higher court to which it can run off to with an appeal. https://ab.co/2Rbd8os

07.01.2022 "Majority of uber and taxi users willing to pay more for an electric ride" according to an EU poll ... thats good, BUT, taking a ride in a more efficient & sustainable vehicle only addresses half the problem, we also need to start dealing with the mass of excess vehicles congesting city streets. Good on New York for capping the number of uber type vehicles back in 2018 ... Aussie cities need to catch up and do the same. https://bit.ly/38Wyz27

07.01.2022 "Canadian Court Slams Ubers Arbitration Process Ruling ... its rules for drivers are illegal, unconscionable" ... so what does that mean for Australia? Yep, forcing Australian drivers to arbitrate disputes in the Netherlands is just as ridiculous as it is for Canadian drivers. And drivers protests about "fake" surge pricing by Uber will go ... nowhere (not even Amsterdam). Makes driving a cab the thinking persons option. https://on.wsj.com/2TlpzLY https://bit.ly/2VA2HdM

06.01.2022 "Cautionary tale from 9 U.S. cities: Ride-hailing services lead to more congestion, research shows" ... the recommendation to limit the supply of ride-sourcing vehicles in downtown and congested areas of cities is what Governments around the world have been doing for decades (or even centuries) by capping taxi licence numbers ... not an "old fashioned" concept, just a pragmatic solution to the very real problems associated with oversupply. https://bit.ly/2FAtPVO

06.01.2022 "Electric scooters are now disrupting wrists, elbows and heads Injured scooter riders are flooding US emergency rooms. Accident rates could be as high as 1,000 per month" ... hopefully State Governments around Australia are watching and learning this time. Saying safety is a top priority is not the same as having a strong track record for keeping people safe ... Australian taxis, a safer mobility option. https://cnet.co/2rbCN22

04.01.2022 "Rideshares Like Uber and Lyft Have 35,000 Times More Bacteria Than a Toilet Seat: Study" ... as isolation measures ease across the globe, avoiding spaces potentially contaminated with coronavirus will be the new normal. Grabbing a cab continues to look a lot safer than jumping into a ride-sourcing vehicle. https://bit.ly/35RSmzd

04.01.2022 "Heres a tip, Uber pay your drivers properly ... a US company trying to impose its policy of global wage suppression onto its Australian workforce has to be called out." Of course, the even smarter option for drivers is to switch to driving a real cab where incomes are up, and would be up even further if more customers also switched to catching a cab in protest against driver exploitation. https://bit.ly/2TrrJNL

03.01.2022 "Silicon Valley Invents Taxi Lines ... Lyft is testing out a daring new feature the company hopes will make airport pickups easier. Its called a line." A facetious headline but one that is spot on. Aaron Gordon got it right in concluding, "... try the taxi line at the airport. Its almost always faster and the drivers can actually earn a living." https://bit.ly/2V3wVbC

02.01.2022 "Unsettling 3D simulations have underlined the risk of catching coronavirus on public transport ..." its a worry, so once again grabbing a cab remains a much better option https://bit.ly/2XcSHd3

02.01.2022 "Uber, WeWork, Airbnb how coronavirus is bursting the tech bubble" ... as not the "revolutionary tech" that they pretended to be, merely "new tech" used to disrupt existing industries and which everyones been able to catch up on anyway. https://bit.ly/3eAkLh0

02.01.2022 "Toyota Looks Pretty Smart Right Now On Autonomous Vehicles" ... as they did with hybrid petrol-electric vehicles (i.e. where they jumped well and truly ahead of competitors too focussed on EV tech as the long term solution, myopically missing a huge opportunity in transitional tech). https://bit.ly/2BeZEBU

01.01.2022 "Stressed out and at risk: Inside Ubers special investigations unit ... overworked, underpaid and at times emotionally traumatized as they [60 investigators and 15 team leaders] struggled under the burden of nearly 1,200 cases every week, a confidential internal memo obtained by CNN says." Is this really how a company where Safety is the No. 1 Priority, or even any level of priority, operates? https://cnn.it/2Mrb7jj

01.01.2022 "Ubers Stock Disappoints, Capping a Rocky Path to Its IPO" ... so theres at least a big chunk of investors looking at Uber and wondering how its going to make a profit after it stops subsidising fares to buy market share. Its the elephant in the room ... https://nyti.ms/2WBFgk6

01.01.2022 "The rise and fall of the #$@&%*! startup ...the days of tech startups slipping into [peoples] daily lives unnoticed are over." And from a whole of community perspective, that would have to be a good thing. https://bit.ly/2WfhSZ7