Munich – For months, the taxi is at odds with rival Uber regulatory authorities in Europe. Now the company proposes a conciliatory tone. “We want to establish a partnership in 2015 with cities in the EU”, announced Uber-Chief Travis Kalanick on Sunday in Munich. By the end of 2015 50,000 new jobs could be created in Europe, Kalanick said in a speech on the digital industry conference DLD. In addition, the traffic could be reduced by better utilization of cars.
About mediated via a smartphone app running opportunities for private car owners and collects commissions. According to authorities and courts in several countries violates the service of laws that regulate the commercial passenger transport. About anger got so including Germany, France, Spain and the Netherlands, but also in the US, India and China.
In Germany, the company ignored an injunction from the Landgericht Frankfurt with the words: “This progress can not be slow.” Many rules were drawn up to defend a “protected monopoly” of the taxi industry, Kalanick said in Munich. “For rules that protect people were rules that protect an industry.”
The German taxi industry Storm runs against competition from California. Critics Over inter alia dumping prices charged to front of the driver and the lack of protection of the safety of passengers. Kalanick replied, with the increasing popularity increased utilization and earning the driver. The Security can be improved by controlling drivers, customer feedback and satellite monitoring of the trips.
“We get cars off the road, we get cars from the parking lot,” Kalanick said at the DLD conference. The expansion of Uber-offer it could 400,000 fewer cars enter on the streets within a few years. The Startup wants more Uber Pool rely on the service, among other things, in which several passengers sharing a car
Over operates worldwide by its own account in more than 240 cities -. But both the domestic US market as well as in many other countries involved in a sharp confrontation with the authorities and the taxi industry and must accept limitations. To date, the investors do not interfere with it: The startup based in San Francisco recently secured an additional 1.2 billion dollars. The review was placed in fabulous $ 40 billion. About making it one of the richest and most Top Rated startups it has ever been. Investors who aspire that the company with its platform in the long run can revolutionize the logistics.
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