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posted by martyb on Tuesday September 26 2017, @09:22AM   Printer-friendly
from the kissing-up dept.

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?


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 27 2017, @02:41AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 27 2017, @02:41AM (#573631)

    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.

    -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 27 2017, @02:58AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 27 2017, @02:58AM (#573635)

    Transunion Car Service in Newark.
    (In the article with Green Taxi.)

    -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]