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Once again, 500 illegal Uber vehicles have been uncovered — high time for clear minimum prices.
The federal association knew that this swamp existed. However, that 500 more illegal Uber cars were uncovered shows that chaos and crime prevailed in the Uber milieu, according to the federation's managing director Michael Oppermann regarding the latest revelations.
“After more than 1,000 illegal Uber vehicles in Berlin last year, 500 more were unmasked in Frankfurt,” Oppermann explains. “These figures show: this is not about a few bad apples, but Uber fraud has a system.”
As in Berlin, in Frankfurt too, vehicles were identified that were on the road with forged documents, entirely without documents, or without valid insurance.
“Uber is no longer just a danger to the taxi trade, but also to passengers,” emphasizes Oppermann. “I wonder: Where is the responsibility of the platforms that enable this system? Who is actually responsible when passengers are harmed?”
Not only a danger to the taxi trade
Passengers face risks, because there is no insurance coverage in accidents, no legal protection in case of trouble. This is a spiral of irresponsibility, laments Oppermann.
Frankfurt thus forms only the latest link in a chain of blatant violations of the law – and proves how little the previous “cooperations” and sporadic raids against massive abuse accomplish.
“What we need now is not lip service, not postponing things for later, but hard-and-fast rules that are also enforced,” Oppermann continued.
The industry association calls for, in line with the regulations already practiced in cities such as Essen and Heidelberg, finally the introduction of binding minimum fares for rental cars with drivers nationwide. Such fixed tariffs would end the ruinous price competition, weed out the black sheep from the traffic, and restore stability and fairness to the industry as a whole.
That would not cause Uber to disappear, but it would ensure that the competition does not come at the expense of the drivers and their passengers.
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