What Transport London Banning Uber Means for Tech Startups

This is monumental news

Which has far ranging implication to other tech startups

Going beneath the law is one thing, but at some point you have to comply with regulations and if you are lapse in this respect you are going to come a foul of government policy.

This is what has happened to Uber

Don’t get me wrong, this feels like a local government taking the chance to make an example of one of the world’s most famous tech companies, but you have to remember Uber has hijacked cities, to an extent, by circumventing the natural bureaucracy typically needed to launch a service such as theres.

Uber have been punched in the face but customers have been knocked out

This is terrible news for consumers

The customer always loses. I understand and appreciate transport London’s basis for the rejection of Ubers license :

A lack of corporate responsibility in the following:

• It’s approach to reporting serious criminal offences
• It’s approach to how medical certificats are obtaines