Portland and NYC have regulations (some stiff) so that can't be the whole story. Which regulations?
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Replying to @wycats @fivetanley
https://www.wallstreetdaily.com/2016/05/11/austin-texas-uber-lyft/ … aha! There must be some more serious poison pills in here. Something they knew Uber *couldn't* do
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Replying to @wycats @fivetanley
it was the bg checks, which aren’t even active yet. Uber/Lyft threatened to leave, lobbied hard, lost and threw a fit.
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Replying to @fivetanley @wycats
can confirm, I voted against them purely because of their bullying. Mailers and text/phone every day for a month.
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Replying to @jcoene @fivetanley
I don't think it has to do with money to implement: https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/texas-capital-city-votes-to-keep-fingerprinting-for-uber-lyft-drivers-1462796972 …
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it seems like the particular background check system is slower and more clunky, and Uber/Lyft don't want to be 1/
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pressured into implementing it throughout the country. 2/2
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Replying to @fivetanley @jcoene
"fight regulation" seems overly strong, don't you think?
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for example, this is what happened in Portland: http://www.geekwire.com/2015/portland-passes-permanent-laws-legalize-uber-lyft/ … not exactly unregulated.
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