In message
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mber.org, at 07:45:50 on Mon, 5 Oct 2015, Recliner
remarked:

They can't get customers to book
them on the spot: the booking has to be made through Uber.

They can get the customer to book them through Uber, on the spot.

I don't think they can. You can't pick a particular vehicle to
book through
Uber, can you? And Uber cars aren't marked.

That doesn't matter if you are already sat in it, talking to the driver.

How would you identify it as an Uber car?

Because the driver will have accosted you as you walked along the
pavement.

Surely that's more likely to be how an unlicensed car would behave, rather
than an Uber driver? The latter would be more likely to be automatically
spotted if he behaves in that way, and has more to lose.

Whichever is more likely, Uber drivers do it too.

How do you know?

Because I've read the literature. I've even posted two cites.


https://tfl.gov.uk/info-for/taxis-an...ompliance-and-
enforcement

No comments?

Still no comments?

Clifford Chance reports some infractions in #3 of this piece (from a
lobbying body, but they won't have made up the quotes):

http://uk.businessinsider.com/ubers-...ifford-chance-
fighting-to-ban-it-here-are-the-5-big-arguments-2015-10

Remind me again of who is paying Clifford Chance?

Doesn't matter, they are top-10 firm who can't be found out making up
quotes. So the things they say must be true.

I wonder if the people they're quoting actually *know* that the offending
drivers work for Uber? Or do they just blame Uber as it's the best known
new-era mini cab firm?

Many of the claims are from other minicab firms, who are in a good
position to identify which competitors they see misbehaving.

And those reports from the police will be based on questioning the
drivers as to who they are working with.
--
Roland Perry