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

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256 points reubensutton | 1 comments | 25 Nov 19 10:19 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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dominotw ◴[25 Nov 19 14:04 UTC] No.21628168[source]▶
>At least 14,000 trips involved drivers who weren’t who the riders thought they were,

any idea what the source of this info is?

And not sure what the timeframe here is. Is it 14000 since Uber started operating in london?

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1. stopads ◴[25 Nov 19 14:11 UTC] No.21628218[source]▶
Where I live people give their phones and unlock code to others to drive under their name. They usually do this for drivers who can't pass a background check or even don't have a driver's license, but still need money.

The legit driver almost always gets a cut for this, free money on your vacation days or while you're working other, better jobs.