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Uber loses licence to operate in London, will still operate while appealing

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256 points reubensutton | 2 comments | 25 Nov 19 10:19 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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caithrin ◴[25 Nov 19 10:50 UTC] No.21626966[source]▶
"Only in the last few months it has been established that 14,000 Uber journeys have involved fraudulent drivers uploading their photos to other driver accounts - with passengers' safety potentially put at risk getting into cars with unlicensed and suspended drivers."

This seems, from a technical perspective, an easy problem to solve with the resources of a public company.

Is it the desperation of people who need the money so badly they will constantly cheat the system? Can you design for that?

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1. pjc50 ◴[25 Nov 19 11:29 UTC] No.21627155[source]▶
> Is it the desperation of people who need the money so badly they will constantly cheat the system? Can you design for that?

This is the Internet. If you don't design for people cheating you, they will wreck your system as soon as it becomes popular enough to be visible.

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2. Jommi ◴[25 Nov 19 13:40 UTC] No.21627998[source]▶
Which is the exact problem. Ubers smaller competitors have no incentive for heavy regulatory features because they can get away with it. That in turn pushes Uber to not implement them either, until the very last moment.