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July 17, 2014
Let Us Drive
How about letting us drive?
Who's us? Passengers—taxi-ride buyers. Plus anyone else who participates in the
market transactions that take us places.
Many Orlando, Florida cabbies are eager to work
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with the ride-sharing company that makes the smartphone app Uber. They're
tired of leasing cabs for $129 a day while scrambling for enough
price-controlled fares to earn a decent living after paying that steep cost.
Uber drivers provide their own car and let the firm's technology connect them
to customers. Uber gets 20 percent of fare revenue.
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The politics are mostly hostile to the innovation in places like New York City
where markets are mangled by super-high license fees and other regulations. The
politics are also tough in Orlando, which has been cracking down on Uber
drivers. But the mayor and Uber executives have been talking about a deal under
which Uber could operate if it submits to . . . regulation. (Sigh.)
Cab companies in the City Beautiful expect to rapidly lose revenue if
innovators like Uber and Lyft get to operate freely. But Orlando taxi drivers
expect to gain.
If you talk to 1,000 drivers, says one, 950 will tell you they are going to
Uber. Says another: Let Uber come here. It's going to be good for the
customer and the driver.
Let them come. Also kill all regulations, including fare caps, that make it
harder for cab companies to adapt. Let terms of trade be driven—regulated—by
traders. Not by governments.
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July 17, 1938, pioneer aviator Donald Corrigan took off from Floyd Bennett
Field in Brooklyn — New York City's first municipal airport — with a flight
plan for a return trip to his previous disembarkation point, Long Beach,
California. He wound up the next day in Ireland.
One occasionally hears the phrase Wrong Way Corrigan applied, today, to
anyone who similarly takes a slight liberty, skirting official rules or
practices — or simply goes the wrong way.
Thought
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Freedom to be stupid, freedom to fail, freedom to succeed.
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