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Re:Uber.gov – It’s Time to Let the Government Drive by zhoujianfu on Wednesday December 03, 2014 @02:02AM (#8692257)
I believe their main argument (probably encouraged by the taxi industry) is that it's not safe to have unlicensed taxi drivers.

But by that argument wikipedia should be the world's biggest encyclopedia of racist porn.

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Re:Uber.gov – It’s Time to Let the Government Drive by serge2k on Wednesday December 03, 2014 @02:34AM (#8692373)
It's not a bad argument in some ways, you should be required to have proper insurance to operate as an Uber driver.
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Re:Uber.gov – It’s Time to Let the Government Drive by viscanti on Wednesday December 03, 2014 @02:49AM (#8692425)
There's a difference between "licensed" (where the government only licenses a certain group to create a government granted monopoly) and "insured".
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Re:Uber.gov – It’s Time to Let the Government Drive by cauterized on Wednesday December 03, 2014 @07:54AM (#8693442)
Licensing can also be used to ensure competence and familiarity with safety regulations (there's a reason why we require people to be licensed to operate a vehicle in general and a reason why even in the age of GPS, London cabbies are required to pass a test of their knowledge of the city's streets.)
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