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by viscanti 4009 days ago
Or is it the 0.86% success rate for getting those licenses that was the limiting factor? http://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2015/07/03/uber-annon...

It appears that the licensing process is set to only accept a very small amount of the total applicants. That way politicians and taxi owners have something to point to about how it's a level playing field, and they leave things to a black box bureaucratic process to actually stifle competition.

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that’s different – that’s the taxi license.

Uber does not operate as taxi, but, as they can be not directly hailed from the street, they act as chauffeur for hire.