[Alberta's Child]

Oh, I agree. Then just get rid of the regulations entirely.

Uber, for example, is basically a mobile phone app for gypsy cabs.

In NYC, it's funny how the same people who are mounting a big PR campaign to expand Uber's presence in the city on the basis of "free-market capitalism and limited regulation" somehow don't see it that way when it involves a Puerto Rican driving an unregistered, uninsured 15-passenger van to pick up passengers in the Bronx.

[Bryanw92]

>>Then just get rid of the regulations entirely.

Logic dictates that it does not have to be an all or nothing proposition. An uninsured scooter is quite different from an uninsured 15 passenger van. At least, that makes sense to me.

[wintertime]

There are plenty of cars and vans in NYC that aren't registered and are uninsured. That is the problem. My bet is that if the registration and confirmation of car insurance were contracted to private businesses, instead of run by the state, there would be far fewer unregistered and uninsured cars and vans on the road.

[2nd amendment mama]

Trying to equate Uber with "unregistered and uninsured vehicles" is absolutely ludicrous. Not even close to the same thing. You must be involved somehow with the taxi industry in NYC where a medallion to used to cost over $1M. Because of Uber the cost for a medallion to operate now is only around $160,000.