Amateur Uber Drivers Can Stay On French Roads For Now
Uber’s ride-summoning app offers different services at differing price points: there’s also UberBlack, a service for licensed livery drivers who pick you up in whatever the local equivalent of a Town Car is. Most countries don’t have a problem with this version of the service, but it’s the lower-cost services with a lower barrier to entry that have met with opposition from governments and taxi drivers alike everywhere from New York City to Japan.
That service is called UberX in the United States and UberPop in Europe, and the company has had to stop offering the service altogether in many countries. In France, it can operate for now, but only until a lawsuit filed by a group of transportation companies makes its way to a higher court. Since the case against Uber calls into question a new transport law, the case may reach the country’s constitutional court.
Uber Wins French Court Reprieve Over Legality of Low-Cost Service [WSJ]
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