What is new in the taxi world? Our “Update” summarizes the news of the last days and hours. We recommend using a website-translator because some links can be in foreign languages.
Message of the day
2-0 for Taxi in the German fight against Uber: For the first time a court in Germany used an injunction to stop a private Uber-driver. At the same the court denied a request from Uber to lift the ban it placed on the app-company at the end of August. Instead the Frankfurt court set a date for the hearing of Uber’s appeal to the injunction.
https://taxi-times.com/en/german-court-stops-uberpop-driver/
Taxi Times’ printed issue
September issue appeared: After the successful launch of Taxi Times, here´s the second print edition. “The new Taxi Times includes a lot of fresh topics and you can get a free subscription until the end of the year 2015!
https://taxi-times.com/en/new-issue-of-taxi-times-coming-soon/
Quote of the day
One of our readers’ comments on the current issue of Taxi Times: „I like the international orientation and the interesting contents. It is an enrichment for the magazines of the taxi trade.“
Katja Waldor, Erdgas Mobil
Competition
Taxi demonstration against Uber in Vienna: In Vienna Uber works with private hire and not with private drivers, which are used in many European countries. Nethertheless the taxi drivers in Vienna protests against the company and demand compliance with the law.
http://www.thelocal.at/20140910/austrian-taxi-drivers-protest-against-uber
Uber adding 50.000 “new Driver Jobs” a month: this number comes from Uber-CEO Travis Kalanick. We haven´t been able to verify it.
http://recode.net/2014/09/08/uber-adding-50000-new-driver-jobs-a-month-up-from-20000-in-may/
Car
First photos of the new SUV: Honda has revealed them ahead of a debut at the 2014 Paris Motor-Show.
http://www.carsuk.net/honda-hr-v-small-suv-debut-paris-motor-show/
