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It's easy to move quickly when City Council ignores the law and invests in you:

https://medium.com/@CaseySoftware/mayor-steve-adler-is-scamm...

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So much scare-mongering went into this vote and it's a big reason why Prop 1 failed. No one was scammed by anybody.

Uber and Lyft chose to leave Austin. You can argue endlessly why they were forced out, but somehow other services managed to pop up and make the business work.

Adler and crew said they expected Uber+Lyft to continue operating in spite of the law. Weird.

Most of the things I cite were done after the Prop 1 vote. U+L screwed that up.. the City's behavior since has been ridiculous.

Didn't the law just require fingerprinting?

There were a few other regulations.

One of them included that TNCs can't stop in the middle of a busy road when picking up a rider. This is one thing I'm really glad got implemented because people have been seriously injured and killed[0] because TNCs stop in the middle of busy roads.

0: http://kxan.com/2016/04/28/woman-claims-lyft-driver-was-at-f...

And rev-share and geo-fencing and detailed geo-reporting and...

http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/blog/techflash/2015/12/poi...

> The City of Austin is the hot girl from high school who wanted you to do her homework and then just go away.

Yikes.

Would you feel better if the example were a "hot guy"? Or do you think the nerds should have been happy to do homework without compensation?

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