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UberX Runs Into Trouble In Australia With NSW Suspending Vehicle Registration

Posted by samzenpus on from the mine-now-I-take-it dept.

Harlequin80 writes: RMS (Roads & Maritime Service), the New South Wales' governing body for transport, has begun suspending the vehicle registration of UberX drivers. After failing to deter drivers through prosecutions, with Uber covering fines and legal costs of its drivers, RMS has begun suspending the registration of the vehicles as it forces the vehicle off the road for three months. Under the NSW Passenger Transport Act, paid ride sharing is illegal, and this will see UberX drivers losing the use of their vehicle for both Uber and personal use.

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  1. Re:How dare they! by Chris+Johnson · · Score: -1, Troll

    Competition can lead to pyrrhic victory. Perfectly streamlined competition with the widest possible net of competitors ALWAYS leads to pyrrhic victory.

    If there's a special case where somebody is willing to throw their life away to be the victor and stomp all their enemies, competition will find that person and put them in a position to trash everything around them, give too much, and 'win' unsustainably and uselessly.

    Darn right regulation is about restricting competition, because civilization and 'law of the jungle' don't get along. It's almost always possible to cosh some poor bugger and gain competitive advantage, but it doesn't benefit society when everybody's going around with massive head injuries.

    I mean, look at the USA. Do you want to be like them?!? :)