Uber London loses licence to operate

[SWP's back]

Where are people reading that garrinchas dog paid in cash?
And don't uber jack their rates up in peak hours like they do over here?

Because he didn't use the app to book it. "The hotel" did, for a start. The driver also apparently accepted a smaller amount, you cant do that through the app.

 

[smudgedj]

An uber sticker doesn't mean it's an uber.

Uber's don't take cash, and 90% of the fee is set in stone before you leave, that's the entire business model.

My Uber app has a cash payment facility.

 

[Garrinchas---Dog]

Still bollocks.

The oracle of Bluemoon has spoken
I bow to your greater knowledge

 

[SWP's back]

The oracle of Bluemoon has spoken
I bow to your greater knowledge

How'd you pay?

How'd you order an uber without the app?

You're lying. That's all it is.

 

[Plays By Sense Of Smell]

Will this drive Uber Unter?

 

[domalino]

My Uber app has a cash payment facility.

Not in London it doesn't, which is where this allegedly happened.

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

London Cabbies - Salt of the Earth. Absolute institution.

Then along comes Uber, and crashes the party, and they get banned. Whatever happened to market forces?

Based on absolutely no evidence whatsoever I'd wager more punters have been ripped off by black cab drivers than Uber drivers.

 

[remember arthur mann]

Yes but, do they know the Knowledge ?

 

[ballinio]

Used one in Manchester to get to the Everton game , terrible driver & had no idea how to get to the ground .

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

I thought so too but based on nothing.

I'm pleased you believe the same.

The 'fit and proper test' is sufficently nebulous for me to consider any other outcome to be pretty unlikely; maybe not in the first instance, but in the final reckoning, in my humble opinion.

The fit and proper test is much sparingly and generously applied to operators than drivers, partly because it is much harder to establish an operator fails that test. Operators aren't frequently accused of touching up passengers, for example!

It's going to be interesting; for me at least :-)