[scelerat]

This is one of the reasons traditional cab services are heavily regulated: to avoid these sorts of battles. It's in the interest of a municipality to have stable, predictable, reliable public transportation. Price wars, selective service, and tactics like these disrupt that stability.

[prodigal_erik]

Uber mostly found traction in SF where they started because regulation did not deliver reliable transportation. Street hails mostly worked if you could find one and didn't need them to accept a credit card, but if you called a cab company for a ride, you could easily waste an hour waiting for a cab that never shows up at all.

[johnrob]

One benefit of removing regulations is that we get to relearn why we needed them in the first place.