[colechristensen]

Licensing holds people to standards. Uber might not be a scam, but what if I want to create Cole's Driver Service? With that logic what stops me and a million other scammers from creating shady unregulated taxi services?

[icebraining]

You can create a service, that doesn't mean anyone will use it. And you don't need a license to get arrested and convicted if you do something illegal.

Of course, that requires you to commit a crime first, but it's not like the licenses prevent you from doing so.

And even then, The overwhelming majority of cabbies who killed and maimed passengers and pedestrians in the past five years are back behind the wheel. Of 16 fatal or serious crashes since 2009 examined by The Post, only two of the drivers had their licenses revoked, according to a review based on a Freedom of Information Act request.

http://nypost.com/2014/02/09/cabbies-who-kill-or-maim-in-nyc...