Originally Posted by
Lookleft
The drivers and cars operating Ubers still had to be licensed, the cars had to be registered and roadworthy and the drivers had to follow the road rules. The only thing Uber bypassed was the taxi license plate and they have ultimately had to pay compensation for that disruption. Sure start your own air taxi service with a scaled up drone and call yourself "Disruptor Airlines" then let us all know how long it lasted.
To be clear, I am not remotely interested in setting an Uber style air transport operation. My intent was, by way of example, using the Taxi industry and the Uber phenomena to question the validity of any other industry regulators. At the end of the day you hired a car to transport a person from point A to point B. The vehicle and driver were regulated by an authority specific to that service. Another operator provides the same service (looks like a duck, walks like a duck, quacks like a duck .... ) and is not subject to the same regulations, why would any other regulator be any different?