<story><title>Uber is ending its services in Denmark</title><url>http://www.businessinsider.com/uber-ending-services-in-denmark-2017-3</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chopin</author><text>Afaik a taxi-meter is an approved device, at least somewhat tamper-resistant. Smartphone + app + backend is none of these.</text></item><item><author>ovi256</author><text>Mandating the use of an obsolete technology (taxi meter, when a smartphone + app + backend has the same capability) seems like sensible regulation to you ? That regulation was tailor-made to shut down Uber operations, as a favour to the taxi lobby.</text></item><item><author>legulere</author><text>Uber&amp;#x27;s business model simply cannot survive in sensibly regulated markets when they have to follow the regulations.&lt;p&gt;Uber is probably better than taxi services in markets that lack basic safeguarding regulations or have questionable regulations like restricted tradable taxi medallions leading to high prices. But this is not the case in many places around the world.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tyingq</author><text>The most popular taxi cheat is to the take the long way around.  Meters don&amp;#x27;t help you there.  Also, meters don&amp;#x27;t show you the full trip price before you commit.&lt;p&gt;Uber could perhaps fiddle around with map data, but the history would have to show the correct origin and destination, or it would be noticed.  It&amp;#x27;s trivially easy, and free, to audit against Google maps.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t trust Uber to be ethical, but cheating in this space would just be corporate suicide...they would easily be caught.</text></comment>
<story><title>Uber is ending its services in Denmark</title><url>http://www.businessinsider.com/uber-ending-services-in-denmark-2017-3</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chopin</author><text>Afaik a taxi-meter is an approved device, at least somewhat tamper-resistant. Smartphone + app + backend is none of these.</text></item><item><author>ovi256</author><text>Mandating the use of an obsolete technology (taxi meter, when a smartphone + app + backend has the same capability) seems like sensible regulation to you ? That regulation was tailor-made to shut down Uber operations, as a favour to the taxi lobby.</text></item><item><author>legulere</author><text>Uber&amp;#x27;s business model simply cannot survive in sensibly regulated markets when they have to follow the regulations.&lt;p&gt;Uber is probably better than taxi services in markets that lack basic safeguarding regulations or have questionable regulations like restricted tradable taxi medallions leading to high prices. But this is not the case in many places around the world.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Cthulhu_</author><text>Those are at least verifiable by 3rd parties - in Uber&amp;#x27;s case, both the driver&amp;#x27;s and passengers&amp;#x27; smartphones should match up in terms of what route they took. I guess a sophisticated enough malicious driver could set up a GPS spoof in their car, but honestly if they can do that they&amp;#x27;re working in the wrong industry.</text></comment>