| Click here to view the embedded video. Score one more for government control, corruption, and general silliness. New York's TLC threw down the glove a while ago on the "Uber" application which allows taxi and "black car" drivers to arrange rides over the Internet. This isn't the first time TLC has acted all crazy and stuff. Wait, wrong TLC. Oh well — the sentence two previous to this one applies even without the link. You can't fight City Hall — after all, this is the same commission which magically decided to replace every taxi in New York with Japanese minivans assembled in Mexico that didn't actually exist at the time of the decision, and nobody said nothing, yo. No surprise, then, that Uber is leaving Gotham like Batman riding that bomb out to the ocean in the last Dark Knight film.
Sorry for spoiling the film for you, if you haven't seen it. However, it turns out that Batman wasn't on the plane. He actually checked some code into Wayne Enterprises' subversion or ClearCase or whatever that fixed the autopilot, and he's hanging out in Italy with Anne Hathaway. Because he totally had a bunch of time to code while he was busy saving the world. I want to believe that the autopilot was written in GNU C++, by the way. But anyway, he isn't dead. Oh, damn. Now I'm really sorry. Also, the chick in the Crying Game was a man. And Kevin Spacey is Keyser Soze. I have to stop doing this. DARTH VADER IS LUKE'S FATHER AND ALSO LEIA IS HIS SISTER SO WHAT WAS THAT WHOLE KISS ABOUT WHEN HE CAME OUT OF THE WEIRD HEALING TANK OOOOH? Where were we? Yes. Uber. According to The Verge, Uber asked everybody to come in for their checks this month — and hand in your phone while you're at it, please. This shutdown only applies to Ubertaxi: the "Black Car" service is still up. For now. But probably not for long. Because Uber is the smartphone app the city deserves, but not the one it needs right now. from The Truth About Cars http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com | |||
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