B.C. Uber workers call on province to cap the number of drivers on the road: 'Right now, it's essentially a free for all,' says ride-share driver

lmao we're just making taxis again

The city should sell medallions that drivers can put on their car that allows them to drive a ride share.
Insert "alwayshasbeen.jpg" meme here... :/

Ah I see

Climb ladder
Yank ladder up behind you

We're at step 2

And it's not quite a free for all: drivers need their class4 license, right?

You DO have a class4 license, right?

Uber was never meant to make drivers any profit to begin with. The model was to offset the cost of a commute that they were already going to make by ridesharing, with uber skimming some money off on each transaction. Uber realized that people were willing to work on incredibly small margins in exchange for 'flexibility" when people tried to turn driving into a full time job. Uber drivers are fucking themselves with Uber's dick.

Yeah I actually really like the idea of a true ride sharing app. Think of people taking commuter rail from the city center out to suburbia. There are lots of people that need to go from the train station to their home everyday. Many of them live less 10 minutes apart. Carpools kinda work but what if someone is late, or the driver is sick etc etc. A true ride sharing service would be awesome.
Taxi services in some (many? most?) areas were abusing their monopolies, but I don't think uber is the right way to fix that.

Ubers are supposed to be cheap. Like a fraction of the price of a taxi but also cleaner and safer.

This just turns Uber into another shit taxi. Fuck those guys.

Ubers are supposed to be cheap. Like a fraction of the price of a taxi but also cleaner and safer.
That was always a scam. There are only 4 ways to make something less expensive:
Reduce profit margin
Reduce the cost of equipment and supplies
Reduce labour costs
Reduce regulatory costs
Uber is a nice case study:
By operating globally, their volume is high enough that they can shave margins to nearly nothing and still get bags of money.
They claim be only a booking platform, so they don't actually have to buy anything related to the frontline provision of the service.
As only a booking platform, they have no labour costs associated with providing the transportation service.
Their booking platform claim means they're not a taxi service, so they don't have to pay for the relevant licensing. It also supports their claim that the drivers are actually independent businesses so that the burdens of pay, payroll, worker's compensation, employment insurance, etc are the responsibility of the driver, not Uber.
Note that all of those costs that Uber is avoiding are still actual costs that must be borne by someone. That means the price to the consumer cannot actually go down, except in very narrow circumstances. Like when I'm driving my car some place that is compatible with your origin and destination, which is just a formalization of standard hitchhiking. When each driver is actually offering a true taxi service, the price must actually climb if the worker is to be fairly compensated, because there are no economies of scale.
The only way that Uber can work to provide taxi-like service at a lower price than traditional taxi service is for enough people to sign on that the formalization of hitchhiking can service the majority of trips. I'm guessing that the critical mass is probably well over 50% of car owners.
Safer is a function of training, regulation, and incentives. None of those are part of the Uber model. For safer taxis, mandate background checks, safety-oriented driver training, and structure the pay so that aggressive driving doesn't increase earnings.
- And yet I can get an Uber in Vegas for a fraction of the cost of a taxi. So it can work.
- Increase efficiency.
  Edit: in the editor it says "5." FIVE. But somehow it gets changed to "1.". Am I using Ms word here?
Ubers are supposed to be cheap. Like a fraction of the price of a taxi
This just turns Uber into another shit taxi.
A taxi service that inexplicably isn't required to pay its workers proper taxi wages despite charging the customer the same because they don't have proper "drivers," they have "people on a hustle looking to make a quick buck so it's totally okay for us to pay them peanuts while pocketing the difference." Bullshit.

I thought that's what the cab drivers said when uber started in their cities

Drivers should ask Uber to cap Uber workers. Capping Uber workers is easier and will have a bigger impact on their pocketbook (i.e there's less drivers available during surge pricing so there's more demand)