Personal taxis are now being regulated
Posted on by Kolbe
Personal taxis are starting to find a home with regulations. Services like Lyft and UberX helped to connect drivers with passengers via their respective apps. The idea was great; if you needed a ride, you checked the app to see if there was someone with a car in your area offering a lift, you’d contact them and next thing you know you are sharing a ride to your destination. The problem came when lack of regulations shut down these services. Taxi companies are heavily regulated: their drivers are background checked, the insurance is kept up-to-date, vehicle inspections are performed regularly, etc. These new “personal taxi” services, as they have been deemed, were not regulated and were forced to shut down because of such. Well recently, Colorado has become the first state in the US to set regulations for these services (UberX and Lyft respectively) so that the service can run lawfully and undisturbed. California has since also began to regulate the new form of transportation, and hopefully other states will follow soon.