British High Court gives reason to Uber in the process initiated by taxi drivers – publico

                 

                         
                     

                         

                 

 
 

The Supreme Court of British Justice held – in the case between the London transport regulator, Transport for London, and Uber, now connecting customers to the taxi transport through a mobile application ( app ) -., the app is legal in London not function as a meter, as alleged by the drivers of the iconic black cabs

Pressed by drivers of black cabs , the regulator had asked the court to stay clarified the level of justice to Uber was using your app as a meter, the instrument that notes the distance and the amount to pay for this from the point of departure and arrival of a taxi ride.

The meter is delivered only to those who have passed a test on the location of the streets of London. The London taxi drivers argue that the app Uber is the equivalent of a meter to calculate their tariffs, which prevents legally that vehicles for private services have it.

In response, the Superior Court of Justice ruled that British app a mobile phone does not work as a meter. According to the explanations of the judge Justice Ouseley, cited Friday by the British media, as opposed to the app in smartphone , “the meter does not include a device that receives signals GPS during a trip and send GPS data to a server located outside the vehicle, with the server then calculate the rate that is partially or completely determined with reference to the distance traveled and the time spent and to send the information rate back to the device. “

The Uber, which claims more than a million users in your app in London and 18,000 drivers to respond to the request for private transportation, It considers that the decision is a victory. “Now that the High Court ruled in favor of a new technology, we expect the Transport for London rethink their bureaucratic proposals for Apps as the Uber” he said, quoted by the Guardian , the regional director of Uber for the UK, Ireland and Nordic Countries.

There is currently a proposal on request for a period of at least five minutes be established between the request for transport by app Uber and the time when a driver reaches the customer, to prevent snapshots requests for transport.

For the head of Uber, John Bertram, “compulsory wait five minutes and the prohibition of car sharing would be bad for passengers and drivers. ” “These plans make no sense. That’s why 130 000 people have signed our petition against these proposals. We hope that the Transport for London Londoners listen and let the Uber continue to put London to move “, said Bertram.