The distinction made between rideshares and taxis in the U. S. is based on an absurd and logically unsupportable notion: that using an app causes a person to make a different kind of butt print on a seat than if they arrange to park their ass there some other way. In a nutshell, the courts have said that making something “on-demand” is enough to change the way the underlying service is regulated. This makes no sense, of course, but nobody at any level of the judiciary seems to have the backbone to stand up and say as much.
The distinction made between rideshares and taxis in the U. S. is based on an absurd and logically unsupportable notion: that using an app causes a person to make a different kind of butt print on a seat than if they arrange to park their ass there some other way. In a nutshell, the courts have said that making something “on-demand” is enough to change the way the underlying service is regulated. This makes no sense, of course, but nobody at any level of the judiciary seems to have the backbone to stand up and say as much.