[aianus]

> Your claim now puts the burden on your to demonstrate that unregulated taxis, in countries with regulated taxi systems, are at least as safe as regulated ones.

I can only offer anecdotes, but UberX has been simultaneously cheaper, friendlier, and safer than taking Taxis for me in SF. The first and only time I took a Taxi in SF the guy did an illegal u-turn from the right lane without checking his mirrors and almost got us all killed.

I would be very surprised to find that Uber is less safe overall, if only because the Taxi companies and regulators would be screaming it from the rooftops.

[bane]

Everybody keeps giving examples of Uber in SF, but we haven't been talking about Uber for quite a while, and none of my claims or questions were about Uber.

[aianus]

Uber is what unregulated taxis look like in the first world. Deregulating taxis will not magically turn the United States into Colombia.