Understanding Uber: It's Not About the App

Re:Understanding Uber: It's Not About the App by kwhitefoot on Monday September 25, 2017 @10:50AM (#15330908)

> Only Uber has the actual identity of the driver.

That's strange. Everywhere I go in Europe and Scandinavia the taxi displays the photo ID card of the driver.

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Re:Understanding Uber: It's Not About the App by DanBC on Monday September 25, 2017 @11:36AM (#15331295)

Bit hard to get that if you've left the car and the driver assaults you.

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Re:Understanding Uber: It's Not About the App by FabHK on Monday September 25, 2017 @03:40PM (#15333389)

Regulated taxis do, but cars hired via the Uber app don't. (You might see the first name in the app, but that's it).

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Re:Understanding Uber: It's Not About the App by zwily on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @08:50AM (#15338142)

First name and license plate. That should be enough for the police to go off of.

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Re:Understanding Uber: It's Not About the App by dx034 on Thursday September 28, 2017 @08:09AM (#15356492)

But still harder than getting name, address and phone number from uber. The car can be registered to someone else which drags out the process.

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