Don’t have a Chromecast, so I’m afraid I don’t know.

Don’t have a Chromecast, so I’m afraid I don’t know.

The issue is whether he was “off the job.”  If he had turned off the app and was about to drive home, then yes.  If he just hadn’t been assigned his next ride yet, then you could readily argue he was still “on the job.”

They have.  Medallions were $250-300k in 2004. By 2014, they were $1.2-1.3 million.  They’re now back to around $250k. 

In NYC, they installed the machines in the late 90s. Drivers hated them, because (a) they got charged the credit card fees, and (b) they couldn’t lie about their tips and commit tax fraud, so they were often mysteriously “out of commission.” The city then changed the rules to state that, if a credit card machine…

You do know that NYC taxi drivers are independent contractors too, right?

In NYC, UberX is just about the same price as taxis, sometimes a bit more, sometimes a bit less. They haven’t undercut with price, they’ve undercut with being a better experience.

The “independent contractor” complaint about Uber is a red herring - taxi drivers are also independent contractors, as are (the large majority of) car service drivers who don’t drive for Uber/Lyft.  

If the problem is congestion, then let’s deal with congestion. Maybe charge all TLC vehicles a fee based on the number of miles travelled that’s not part of an active passenger ride, to reduce empty cruising.

Best way to deal with congestion is congestion pricing.  City has done a bit of that, but should do more.  The Move NYC plan would be an excellent start, but it keeps running into opposition from outer borough council members and state legislators who have constituents who believe that it’s their god-given right to…

The apps have definitely improved the black car service experience (although at times not wildly, I was typically able to get a car in midtown in <10 mins in many cases), and no doubt that has eroded the value of the exclusive street hail.  

A watch has been added, looks like it reads 9:45.

I went Nice Price, but the altered front end and the two different (and both ugly) wheel choices make my Spidey Sense tingle a bit.  If it were stock, then definitely NP. 

“Uh, hello?! Because they CHEATED so they didn’t have to pay the $700K for a medallion or pay their drivers like employees. Are you fucking kidding with this shit?”

The large majority of the medallions were sold for essentially nothing, back in the 1930s. There are only a couple hundred (out of 13k or so) medallions that were sold by the city for over $250k, and essentially all of those went to speculators.  Medallions sold for $250k in 2004, then ran up, in a speculative bubble,…

In NYC, Uber and Lyft are fully licensed car service companies, all their vehicles have commercial plates, and the drivers have commercial licenses. They’re following all the relevant rules that car services have followed for decades.

From the article, sounds like they had a CO2-based fire suppression system, and once they triggered it, the fire was rapidly put out.  

Why?  Also, even if you set up international mail forwarding with the post office, it doesn’t last forever, and she’d clearly been working overseas for quite a while. 

If you’re an Autobot, yes.  If you’re Megatron or Soundwave, you need a ride.

Relax, don’t worry, everything’s Feynman. 

It’ll depend on the actual facts of how the sale went down, and (most likely) on how involved the dealer was in facilitating the sale.  If Cena called them up out of the blue and said he had one to sell, and they found a buyer, and can credibly claim they didn’t know about the resale prohibition, they should be fine. …