Uber to Resume in Calgary December 6 2016

[Dentoman]

Originally Posted by peter12

That said, Mr. Mayor should have kept his ego in check.

This 50 plus (almost) white Calgarian agrees.

I like a lot of stuff about Nenshi, but his ego does get the best of him sometimes and it does detract from him as mayor.

[calgaryblood]

Originally Posted by Slava

I mean in terms of their screening processes and things like that. Would they do this to say Checker Cabs? How about a daycare? Like I say, it seems bizarre on the face of it, and seems like they were really targeting (if they actually did this....which seems like a fabrication at this point as well).

Pretty sure the Calgary Police does the criminal checks for taxi drivers in Calgary so no need to do the same screening process.

[Kjesse]

Looks like there's going to be an investigation. Of note is that Nenshi said to council today that nobody asked questions about how he knew certain people slipped through the Uber screening process.

One journalist (Trevor Scot Howell) has tweeted that what Nenshi said is "patently false", and that the question was repeatedly asked but never answered.

Also, Nenshi said this today:

“I made allegations than it went further than that, and that’s not fair. That’s not right. The limit of my knowledge … is that we know anecdotally that someone slipped through. And I’m very sorry that I made it sound like there was a lot more to it than that,” Nenshi said.

Keep in mind that in video, he said the city "sent" sex offenders to become Uber drivers.

[Fuzz]

3 words would get him out of this pickle.

"I was drunk"

I would also accept "I was high".

[Dan02]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

3 words would get him out of this pickle.

"I was drunk"

I would also accept "I was high".

how about 2

"I lied"

[Cappy]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

If they just grabbed criminals names from the database and used them to fill out job applications without the persons knowledge, it certainly is fraud, its close to identity theft, and at the very least there is a privacy issue.

You cannot do things like fill out job applications or things like credit applications without their knowledge of signature.

Is it criminal, I'm not a lawyer, but I think that will be a question that will be asked,

There has been no suggestion of that! It's actually a very serious issue to allege fraud in many cases. just saying.

[Cappy]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

And he said it in what he thought was a private conversation. I call people dicks all the time, but I probably wouldn't do it if I was on the news.

Is it legal to record people without telling them?

I don't no about Massachusetts, but here it pretty much is. as long as one person in the coversation knows it

[Cappy]

Originally Posted by Slava

I mean in terms of their screening processes and things like that. Would they do this to say Checker Cabs? How about a daycare? Like I say, it seems bizarre on the face of it, and seems like they were really targeting (if they actually did this....which seems like a fabrication at this point as well).

Pretty sure taxi drivers have RCMP background checks.

[Cappy]

Originally Posted by Dentoman

This 50 plus (almost) white Calgarian agrees.

I like a lot of stuff about Nenshi, but his ego does get the best of him sometimes and it does detract from him as mayor.

I guess this depends on which side of the spectrum you are on sometimes.

Im sure many felt the same way about Ralph.

Pierre Trudeau is equally a divergent character.

Obviously Donald Trump has some of that sentimentality as well.

People love charismatic and outspoken politicians. But people hate them just as much, especially if they disagree with them on things.

But I agree with you, I find some of Nenshi's mannerisms or scrums to be a little much (i dont see it in this video though, really) but he is a packaged deal.


OOPS, sorry for the stream of posts..

[Erick Estrada]

Originally Posted by getbak

If Erick Estrada is going to keep using Nenshi as his avatar, I request he change it to this...

I will try to remember to do this when I get home.

[zamler]

Here ya go

[pylon]

Nm.

[Oling_Roachinen]

Originally Posted by Cappy

I don't no about Massachusetts, but here it pretty much is. as long as one person in the coversation knows it

In the US, there's one-party and two-party (all-party) consent states. In one-party, only one person must be aware the conversation is being recorded. In two-party, everyone needs to be aware. Massachusetts is a two-party consent state with a catch, the recording must be 'secret.' Massachusetts is pretty stringent, and as it's very apparent that Nenshi didn't know he was being recorded, it would probably be ruled against the driver but the driver certainly has a case that it was not a secret recording if the camera was obvious and moreso if it had led lights indicating it. Would be pretty grey.

[Deelow]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

3 words would get him out of this pickle.

"I was drunk"

I would also accept "I was high".

Perhaps "another one of my drunken stupors" would appease?

[longsuffering]

An Uber driver is charged with sexual assault stemming from an incident early Tuesday morning in Markham.

Shortly after midnight, a 34-year-old Markham woman was picked up by an Uber driver in the area of Yonge Street and Major Mackenzie Drive in Richmond Hill.

The driver took the woman to a parking lot in the area of 16th and Woodbine avenues in Markham, where the woman was sexually assaulted.

Link to news article

[accord1999]

Uber threatening to leave Houston over its regulations. The big sticking point seems to be fingerprint checks.

http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news...ll-7380012.php

Looking at the steps to become an Uber driver in Houston, it seems less onerous than Calgary's but apparently still too much for Uber.

https://s3.amazonaws.com/uploads.hip...ess-online.pdf

[Wormius]

Originally Posted by accord1999

Uber threatening to leave Houston over its regulations. The big sticking point seems to be fingerprint checks.

http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news...ll-7380012.php

Looking at the steps to become an Uber driver in Houston, it seems less onerous than Calgary's but apparently still too much for Uber.

https://s3.amazonaws.com/uploads.hip...ess-online.pdf

This makes me wonder if Uber clearly thinks through their marketing and news releases. Without anybody else's help, they make show themselves in a very poor light at every opportunity.

[Teh_Bandwagoner]

https://www.theguardian.com/technolo...elf-regulation

This article seems fitting here. Also from Reddit:

I think it is important to note that Austin bent over backwards trying to address the stated concerns of Uber/Lyft.

First fingerprints were too expensive, so the city said they will pay for them. Then they said the process of getting them was too inconvenient to get given how the companies recruit so the city said they will have mobile fingerprinting stations which they will run at onboarding events (among other things) and would handle the determination of the pass/fail. Finally they said it would just plain slow down recruitment and be a logistical nightmare with their existing drivers so the city strengthened the language about the mobile fingerprinting, phased in the requirement, and put in language requiring the city to evaluate the program and make changes if it was affecting onboarding.

There are a number of other parts of the ordinance which I could see Uber/Lyft having a problem with (geofencing event pickup/dropoff, extensive data sharing, bans on weather related surge pricing, etc) but their publicly professed main issue was the fingerprinting.

[corporatejay]

The more I read about Uber the more I hate them.

Sacca is an investor and this "drunk driving" #### is getting old.

https://twitter.com/sacca/status/729757869726302208

[Dan02]

Originally Posted by corporatejay

The more I read about Uber the more I hate them.

Sacca is an investor and this "drunk driving" #### is getting old.

https://twitter.com/sacca/status/729757869726302208

There is nothing about that tweet that is factually untrue, analysis have been done and when uber/lyft enter a market there is a decrease in both the number of DUI charges and impared related accidents.

A reduction in drunk driving is absolutely a legitimate reason for the easing of restricions in the transportation industry.

And i'd like to point out that Ubers less evil cousin Lyft is also pulling out of Austin so it's obviously not like this is uber just trying to be dicks.