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The European Court of Justice (ECJ) Declares Uber a Transport Service

posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday December 20 2017, @05:54PM   Printer-friendly
from the if-it-walks-like-a-duck dept.

canopic jug writes:

After a period of consideration, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has decided that Uber is a transport service, just like any other taxi company. There is lot to say about Uber's use of untrained, non-professional drivers and other abusive practices.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by bob_super on Wednesday December 20 2017, @08:28PM (2 children)

    by bob_super (1357) on Wednesday December 20 2017, @08:28PM (#612519)

    > The fact that robot Marvin is required in order for the model to pull a profit is relevant.

    Not. at. all.
    If Greta got all the street intersections of customers and got them all a ride, or if Marvin was completely incompetent and people cancelled in droves, causing the company to lose even more billions than they currently do ... the income would still be 100% coming from customers paying for custom transportation.

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  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday December 21 2017, @01:06AM (1 child)

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Thursday December 21 2017, @01:06AM (#612652) Journal

    If Greta got all the street intersections of customers and got them all a ride, or if Marvin was completely incompetent and people cancelled in droves, causing the company to lose even more billions than they currently do ... the income would still be 100% coming from customers paying for custom transportation.

    No, there wouldn't be a company to lose so many billions.

    • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Thursday December 21 2017, @01:13AM

      by bob_super (1357) on Thursday December 21 2017, @01:13AM (#612655)

      Yup, they'd be a dead transportation company, with a useless an irrelevant app.

      Sadly, the assets would still be worth billions, because of all the personal data they've been siphoning off their user's phones and usage patterns.