And these countries, japan, korea, german (partial ban), Holland
(partial ban), Taiwan, and part of USA etc
who banned Uber are also an open economy countries under the UN and
OEDC membership, which Singapore is also part
of it.
If they can ban Uber to save job for their locals taxi drivers,
why Singapore can’t do it? the issue here is therefore, because of
Grab, an investment arm of our Govt temasek, if you allow Grab, you
must also allow Uber, otherwise, you cannot proclaim yourselve a
free market city.
So, I see it is double edge sword govt is doing here, on one
hand trying to help TDs, on the other hand, promoting and
legalizing apps rides and expect all to drive on the road
complimenting each other.
Japan who is going into driverless understood the needs of their
taxi drivers, they already start training their driver on handling
driverless technology, the programming, the road, the repair and
the value chains. That is an upgrade for their drivers.
But in Singapore, apps rides is still around, and when
driverless come into the picture, foreigners may be operating it,
and given skilfuture to individual, they expect Taxi driver to
upgrade themselves…WTH.
