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French Uber users face 15-minute delay starting next year
12/30/2013 10:31:00 AM
To the surprise of virtually everyone in France, the government has just passed a law requiring car services like Uber to wait 15 minutes before picking up passengers. The bill is designed to help regular taxi drivers, who feel threatened by services like Uber, SnapCar and LeCab, which were recently introduced to the Gallic country. Cabbies there need to go through formidable time and expense to get their permits and see the new services -- which don't require such training -- as direct competitors. Proposed earlier in the year, the legislation managed to pass through despite reservations from the French competition authority, which deemed it ill-thought-out. Meanwhile, a spokesman for the private services called the new law "absurd, unjust and incomprehensible" and vowed to attack it. One SnapCar rep even told TechCrunch it would never leave a customer on a rainy street, and pointing to the French Minister responsible, said "what would Manuel Valls want for his mother?"
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