New York Could Become First Major U.S. City to Cap Uber and Similar Vehicles
NYC Cabbies deserve the cold shoulder:<p>- They&#x27;re frequently rude and unaccountable.  They&#x27;ll talk with friends on speaker (car speaker) and you can&#x27;t rate them.<p>- Oh, sorry sir. Can&#x27;t go to Brooklyn.  Grumble grumble.<p>- Smells, garbage and other horrors on the back seat.  Why bother cleaning it when you&#x27;re a monopoly?<p>- Road rage, dangerous driving, etc. that requires a more complicated TLC complaint while Uber and Lyft let you do it over the app.<p>Want people to take less car services?  Fix the subway and buses.<p>Passing new restrictions to protect medallion owners (not the drivers) is similar to the way they killed Airbnb here in that it lets the Council pander to those who paid to play, while simultaneously couching the exercise in some moralistic greater good.  [edit:  Friday-afternoon-inspired run-on sentence repair]