I personally like the option of cutting her brake lines.

I personally like option number 4, cut her brake lines.

I’d love to see a world where we are trusted to make our own decisions and deal with the consequences.

Remember, velocity is much more important than mass. Ke=(1/2)mv^2. The combined velocity if it strikes a rotor is really high so there’s a lot of kinetic energy in the collision.

Apparently OP has never seen Black Hawk Down. They’re not meant to sustain much damage at all.

Mass is significantly less important than velocity in determining damage in a collision. Damage is caused by kinetic energy. The equation is Ke=(1/2)mv^2. If they collided at a high enough relative velocity, it could do some damage.

I can’t speak of the regulations where you live, but in Canada we use regulations to level the playing field, not tip it in the favour of one party over the rest.

Original intentions are irrelevant. All that matters is what they are now and now they are a taxi service. Call it ride sharing all you want but that’s not what it is. What you’re doing is pointing at an apple and calling it an orange.

If you’re doing it as a business, yes. Uber is not a friend doing a favour. You’re accepting money from strangers on the condition of you driving them where they want to go, facilitated via an app that’s developed by an obvious corporate entity. Don’t try to make this out to be anything other than a business…

Because, whether you like it or not, you live in a society comprised of many people of many backgrounds and abilities. Your tax dollars go to ensuring that said society continues to function, even if that means protecting “ignorant ass hats.” Don’t like it? Buy an island and fuck off.

Oh it certainly is. I’m continuing it because I have nothing better to do at the moment.

It was not a misdirection, it was building on a point. Perhaps you were trying to limit the discussion to traffic apps specifically but I took it to mean apps in general.

I’ll still take the opinions of dozens of professional venture capitalist firms

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Oh no! Some company that thinks it’s important has downgraded some banks’ standings! At least our banks didn’t need billions of dollars in government bailout money to not go bankrupt.

All of which was very important in 1950, but will never be as good as something like Waze.

Clearly their VC investors see plenty of potential.

I guess Canadians need to be told what to do.

There thinking was that they are tired of scrapping corpses off the pavement because morons keep driving into the opposing lane to get around closing gates.

I realize that not everyone in the US is anti-regulation but there is a far higher percentage of them in the US than there is in Canada.