Mr Khosrowshahi, who took over at the firm less than a month ago, wrote: "While Uber has revolutionised the way people move in cities around the world, it's equally true that we've got things wrong along the way.
[...] In a letter addressed to Londoners, the new boss said the firm "won't be perfect, but we will listen to you".
"On behalf of everyone at Uber globally, I apologise for the mistakes we've made."
[...] Mr Khan, who is also chairman of TfL [Transport for London], told the BBC: "What you can't do is have a situation where unfair pressure is brought on a quasi-judicial body, where there are officials working incredibly hard.
"I appreciate Uber has an army of PR experts, I appreciate Uber has an army of lawyers - they've also made aggressive threats about taking us to court."
Wielding the coercive power of government is stressful enough without people fighting back?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 27 2017, @02:41AM (1 child)
If you don't like The Race to the Bottom, Stallman lays it all out why Uber sucks.
...meanwhile, there's a worker-owned cooperative taxi company in Denver called Green Taxi. [yesmagazine.org]
...and another in Philadelphia called Alliance Taxi. [google.com]
...and there's a ride-hailing app besides Uber and Lyft which apparently is a FOSS thing.
Swift [googleusercontent.com] (orig)[1] [inthesetimes.com]
(That mentions a co-op in Frisco that failed, but doesn't go into details.)
[1] Jacobin's page has malformed links.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 27 2017, @02:58AM
Transunion Car Service in Newark.
(In the article with Green Taxi.)
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