re: Uber and Lyft leave Austin over increased regulation. SXSW suffers

So is it the City? or the City, backed by Cab Union/companies pushing these regulations?

Here in St.Louis, the Cab companies and Union have strangle hold on city and county. So they continue to fight while uber? works w/o their wishes.

The fricked up thing, is that Cabbies in St.Louis are f'in horrible. They will choose at the last minute not to pick you up, they are harder to find. It's silly.

"Ride Austin works great, I've used it many times; the service is near identical. The fact that it stumbled a bit with a huge event like SXSW has no bearing on that, and is absolutely no reason to invite Uber and Lyft back. In fact, Ride Austin has out-innovated Uber by passing almost all the money back to the actual drivers and to charity. This is a better and more pure form of the TNC model as it more efficiently connects and exchanges value between those providing the service and those using the service. This, versus supporting an extremely overvalued and corrupt company to create a monopoly that will enable them to continually squeeze drivers and riders, and harass cities and communities who stand up to them in any way.. Look at all the recent high-level execs leaving Uber, charges of harassment, etc.This is a terrible company that has no place in our city -- and I am a huge "sharing economy advocate" and have spent my entire career in technology. Until this, I loved the Uber service, but after their behavior in Austin and learning more about the character of the
company's leadership, I will no longer use them.

"And please, so the lady you mentioned in your article had to wait 30 minutes during one of the largest events in the country and then took a cab -- the horror. I've waited 30 minutes for both Uber and Lyft rides in multiple cities."

I tend to agree with the lone comment on this article. Big deal if people had to wait for a ride. Yall act like without Uber and Lyft there the people will crumble. And I do think Uber's model is shitty. How many of the drivers actually make a worthwhile profit in the long term? Sorry to interrupt the circle jerk here.

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Man I used to love Austin back when it was cool, man.

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>lived in Austin 6 months

"I am so sick of the cali-bros ruining the city."

Uber just seems like a house of cards. Or they are just luring riders in with cheap prices, getting them hooked, then they will raise prices. Because aside from capturing surge pricing, I really don't see how a driver can make money driving for them. You get paid, but then you gotta pay for gas and you're depreciating your car in the long run. You might be saving up money but eventually you'll have to spend it on another car when your car dies from driving it so much.

Every Uber advertisement I've heard has been about hiring drivers, not targeting riders. I'm sure it's because they have such a high turnaround with drivers.

There are a lot of people in this thread talking shite about the issue with Uber and Lyft leaving, yet have no clue as to what went on a year ago. They spent millions on a campaign to annoy and threaten the people who live there and probably lost because they pissed too many voters off.

Damn hipsters and SJWs leave their homes to move somewhere with better opportunities and atmosphere, then start enacting policies to turn it into the same shitty socialist place they left.

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You underestimate illegals. Most of them share Republican ideals on everything except immigration

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Hillary got 66% of the Hispanic vote. Obama got 71% in 2012. I'd be shocked if legal status makes a significant dent in Hispanic voting habits.

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Hillary got 66% of the Hispanic vote.

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Most of them share Republican ideals on everything except immigration

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Immigration must be a big topic for them. Lol

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With the percentage of Gen Z that is coming up liberal, combined with all immigrants in the large cities of Texas, its gonna be interesting to see what happens.

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Gen Z looks to lean libertarian.

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According to the pair’s findings, along with this entrepreneurial bent comes a sense of financial responsibility. Some 84 percent of Gen Z’ers identify as fiscally moderate or conservative. “This group has entered young adulthood as fiscally conservative, which I don’t think you can say about Millennials,” Grace said. “Budget cuts and the recession have been so [present] in their lives.” This sense of financial responsibility — combined with a lack of faith in government — leads to a self-deterministic mindset that looks for the root causes of social problems.

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