No U Turns Please!!

Knock Knock

Who's there?

Uber

Uber Who?

U ber-rah be careful boarding any Cab!!!

 I just cannot believe what I'm hearing

1. A Cab Driver has got a forged Police Certificate.
2. He uses the forged certificate to get a Cab Operators & Driving Licence from the Licensing Authority
3. He gets a Job based on the clearence from the Licensing Authority
4. He commits a crime. A heinous crime.
5. And the first thing the Government does is Ban the Cab Company.

Are we living or Mars or what?

Logic says suspend the Licensing Officer. Investigate the number of fake Licences. If every employer has to run police checks on their employees police certificates, why have the police? Why pay taxes?

Am not seeking Utopia. But this is not really nuclear science.

When a corporate employs, they ask for a Police clearance certificate. If your licensing authority has loopholes, then please sort them out. Not slap the employer with an FIR. When a motorist falls into an open manhole, you sue the Road Authority, not the motorist and neither the manufacturer of the automobile.

Yes, there has been a twist. The media have been able to do better investigations than the Police.

Now we know someone else has complained about the same driver. Yes here please do pull up Uber for being a lousy service provider. But BANNING the company for a screw up by the Police and Licensing Authority , and for our poor civic sense is the wrong way to go about it.

This FIR seems to have been filed quicker than Quickr could have sold my car.

Guys !! Govt!! Give us a break!!

I've used Uber and several other taxis and services and found them to be exceptional. The Govt Pre Paid Taxi Service from Bangalore Airport quoted 1400/- Rs for a drop to Central Bangalore and a Uber Cab ( Innova) cost me 546 - Rs. With far better service.

Ive used Uber in Italy, The Hague, Dubai, Barcelona, India ( Mumbai, Bangalore & Chennai) after being introduced to the service in Brazil and found them to be life savers. And in todays world, please use due diligence before boarding any cab. Always note the Drivers name, phone number and the number plate. If you use Uber, track the car and if youre female, alone and have had a few drinks and likely to sleep, then please call a family member before boarding any taxi. Yes, we believe that every citizen should be safe, but lets not take chances until the government makes the city safe... And even then, take precautions. You wouldnt walk around with a rolex in Harlem at 2 AM and then blame it on the chap who sold the mugger a knife!!

I do feel sorry for the victim and animals like this driver should face maximum penalties the law provides. 

In this case, the law themselves have let him go on two or three ocassions. And the law wants to penalise Uber??

Yes Uber may have made some exagerated claims while advertising. Come on folks.. fair & Lovely, or Fair & Handsome, Shampoo adverts, Bacardi Soda, McDowells No 1 Soda, all our Automobile and Motorcycle adverts have done nothing but bluff. And the paid news on TV Channels do nothing but hoodwink gullible viewers.  So give Uber a break. Yes let them comply with regulations. Let the government comply too with its promises to the people. Make sure that the Licensing Authority is brought to task for negligence and corruption.

Let us as people also realise that we live in a real world and thus take care of ourselves too.

While I am not condoning the dastardly act, I would advise my own mother, sister and daughter and my son too, to always excercise caution in this big bad bad world... Whether theyre boarding a train, bus, plane, taxi, auto or any cab!!