Uber-app wants German taxi market shake up
the app "About" brings together passengers and amateur drivers. It is just as successful as controversial. Taxi drivers see as a threat to their corporate existence and sound the alarm.
Controversial taxi app's service Uber wants to expand in other German cities. In May, the start in Frankfurt am Main is planned, a little later to Dusseldorf, Cologne and Hamburg follow. This was announced by Pierre-Dimitri Gore-Coty, Northern and Western European head of Uber, in the "Welt am Sonntag" on.
Uber rolls in the U.S. for five years on the taxi market. In about 50 North American cities, the Internet company has established taxi company a lesson in fear.
With a 190 million euro investment by Google Venture Partners, the Group of San Francisco wants to overhaul the European taxi industry. Taxi companies in several European countries have already filed lawsuits against Uber.
Too, in Germany many experts believe, the last week in Berlin launched service UberPop infringes the Passenger Transport Act. The app UberPop conveys passengers at Hobby drivers, who in his own car want to earn some money yourself.
The German Taxi and Car Rental Association BZP will therefore draw against Uber in court. "A lawsuit is being prepared," says Thomas Gratz, executive director of BZP, the "Welt am Sonntag". "We are confident that the attack is parried on the taxi industry."
The U.S. group Uber does not frighten the. In Berlin there was already the company WunderCar that works on the same principle as UberPop says Uber-manager Gore-Coty: "The fact that WunderCar was not prosecuted by the authorities, proves that the city welcomes new offers."
In any case, the legal situation has long since not as clear as say the taxi lobby. "The German legislation has been written at a time when the Internet was not invented yet and it does not have our referral service can give," says Gore-Coty.
Accordingly Uber was operating in a gray area. "It is in our interest and in the interest of the customers that the laws be corrected so."
About The EU had signaled that it "welcomes encrusted taxi market" more competitive in, such as Gore-Coty puts it. In fact, EU Digital Commissioner Neelie Kroes had blasphemed in this week's public appeal on Twitter, the Belgian Uber-ban was outrageous.
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