[madeofpalk]

I'm also confused because similar legislation has passed elsewhere (like here in Australia) and Uber 'welcomed' it (in the sense that Uber was not made illegal) and continues to operate with the added sensible legislation.

[legulere]

In Germany you need a special drivers license to commercially transport people, which is mostly a background check and regular checkups that you're physically capable for driving people around. Uber used drivers that didn't have it until they were told to stop. It just shows again how Uber is trying to prey on competitors by ignoring all regulations.

[xixixao]

Wait, in Germany you cannot drive your family around without a special driving licence? Not all regulation makes sense...

[bjelkeman-again]

"Commercially transport people" he said. Do you normally charge a fee when you transport your family? If so the. You are a taxi service and fall under the regulations.

[madeofpalk]

The law isn't like programming. Judges typically see a difference between driving your family around driving for cash on Uber

[Maxious]

> The Queensland government hopes to tweak legislation linked to a contentious crackdown on Uber that inadvertently made charter buses and limousines illegal as well.

> A spokesman for Transport Minister Stirling Hinchliffe, who received legal advice, on Thursday said the threat to all pre-booked passenger vehicles needed to be removed.

http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/breaking-news/business-as...

[xixixao]

I was reacting to "which is mostly a background check and regular checkups that you're physically capable for driving people around." Not worthy of downvotes imho.

[MichaelGG]

Perhaps the rules on what constitutes an employee vs contractor are different enough that Uber feels this wouldn't be a threat? Or perhaps the incentives are different enough that it matters less.

Because it's not about finger prints: that's trivial to do. (Hell, you could probably come up with a simple lens to put on a cell phone to extract enough info to get a print... Not to mention existing services. They're lying if they say this puts too much burden and couldn't continue to operate. No, they want to keep the fiction that there are no Uber driver employees, that they're all, to use the brain-dead term working in the "sharing economy".