Originally Posted by
pedex
All these things you are claiming are wrong and it has been shown to you already. They have been done. Taxi companies are run with owner operated cars, leased cars, company owned leased cars. All ways have been done and are in use these days. Yes you call a taxi service and give someone a ride, even group rides. Nothing you are talking about is new or novel.
Then why isn't someone running a taxi service when they pick up their mother-in-law and bring her to the dentist?
Why isn't it a taxi service to drive your children to school?
Why isn't it a taxi service if you coordinate with your colleagues to carpool to work?
Why isn't hitch-hiking use of a taxi service?
Why isn't it a taxi service if you offer to give someone who's been drinking a ride home and they give you 'a few bucks for gas?'
Why isn't it a taxi service when you drive a vehicle you own to give yourself a ride?
In other words, what exempts any and every driving trip from being defined as 'taxi service?'
Maybe defining and regulating 'taxi services' was and is just a subtle means of pushing everyone into buying and driving their own car because that's what makes the most money for dealers, mechanics, insurers, and everyone else who wants to use you for more money.