ITV London Fake News, To Show London Cabbies In Bad Light.

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We've already seen the Evening Standard caught out this week, promoting a fake news story about London's Taxis. Now we see ITV London News trying to fake a story to blacken the name of London's licensed Taxi trade.

As the Taxi demo was getting underway on Thursday afternoon...a ITV London news team was busying instigating a fake news set up of London's Black Cabs. 

Disabled actress Samantha Renke had been hired and asked to change from her normal method of booking a licensed Taxi through a Taxi app -which she never has any trouble with- to taking part in a fake new sting, set up to make it look as if Taxis won't stop for disabled wheelchair users. 

Unfortunately for this sick news crew, we have a witness who has made a statement, showing that All the cabs that were flagged down and stopped for Samantha were hurriedly sent on their way. 

Taxi driver David said :

"As I drove past her with a fare on board, I noticed her flagging. I dropped off just 20 yards past her, so I spun round to see if she wanted a cab. I was told I wasn't needed as they were filming. 

"This news item is literally lies, she was hailing ghost cabs...Utter B/S and I will be complaining to the BSA watchdog about this."

In the clip shown on the news, Samantha was filmed allegedly flagging a Taxi. The vehicle in the clip carried on without stopping and she appears to raised her arm as if to show frustration at the driver. (Nice bit of acting).

If you look carefully, it's easy to spot that the Taxi light of the Vito in the footage shown is most certainly not illuminated and therefore the vehicle is not for hire. 

But the voice over try's to make it look as if the driver is ignoring actress Samantha, because she's in a wheelchair. 

This will now be reported to The Broadcasting Standards Commission.  

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BREAKING NEWS : Italian Taxis Win Appeal Against Predator Pricing, Uber Given 10 Days To Clear Out 😜

• After months of ugly demonstrations which featured batten charges from right police against working taxidrivers, Italian court has upheld the Taxi and Private Hire industry appeal against the online immediate hire app.

IF THE ITALIANS CAN DO IT... WHY CAN'T OUR ORGS AND UNIONS?

Below is a Translation from the Italian news paper, Libero Quotidiano 

 

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• The Civil Court of Rome, upheld the appeal for unfair competition posed by major unions and economic structures of the taxi industry and car hire with driver against the Group chauffeur service Uber Uber. The Court section of Rome, adhering to the thesis represented by a legal team led by lawyer Marco Giustiniani ensured "the conduct of unfair competition takes place on the Italian territory by Uber-resistant parts B.V., Uber, Uber Uber Italy srl International B.V., International Holding B.V.".
  
  Judges in Roman have also banned the Group Uber "from engaging in non-scheduled public transportation with the use of similar and Uber Uber-app app Lux, Uber-Uber-Uber-Suv, X, XL, UberSelect, Uber-Van, sorting the blocking of these applications with reference to the requests coming from the Italian territory as well as to the promotion and advertising of those services on the national territory".
  
  Uber will then have to pay a fine of 10,000 euro and every driver to 100 euros per day of delay in the fulfilment of the order after the tenth day following notification of the decision of the Court. 
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• The judges of Rome finally condemned Uber to pay the costs of the proceedings. "Following this decision of the Court of Rome, a few weeks following the Turin Court that confirmed the blocking of the service known as Uber Pop-they know the attorneys of taxi drivers in a note-the Uber group runs the risk of having to stop all its activities in Italy, because the services offered to date were recognized in contrast to the Italian law."
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The Company Behind MyTaxi, To Develop Autonomous Taxis.

Why do you think the cycle lanes are so wide ?

During trials in London, five cameras and three lasers will help this pod navigate a two-mile path along an area also used by pedestrians and cyclists.

Over the next three weeks, about 100 people will travel in a prototype shuttle on a route in Greenwich, London.

The vehicle, which travels up to 10mph (16.1kmph), will be controlled by a computer.

However, there will be a trained person on board who can stop the shuttle if required...

German automaker Daimler (DDAIF, -1.27%) and automotive supplier Robert Bosch Group (ROBERT.BOSCH) are partnering to develop and deploy autonomous taxis that customers can hail using a smartphone app by the start of the next decade.

The autonomous driving system that Daimler and Bosch plan to develop will be designed for city driving, the companies said Tuesday.

The alliance will combine Daimler's auto manufacturing expertise with Bosch's systems and hardware skills to accelerate the development of self-driving taxis—a product the companies said will improve traffic flows in cities and road safety. The autonomous taxis will also increase the attractiveness of car sharing, the companies said.

The development alliance aims to make a system for fully automated Level 4 and driverless Level 5 vehicles designed for city streets. The Society of Automotive Engineers has designated five levels of driving automation. Level 4 autonomy means the car takes over all of the driving only in certain conditions, like when the Uber driver falls asleep. 

 For example, it could drive fully autonomously in a certain geographic location such as a specific route in a city centre -such as London's cycle supper Highway. 

Level 5 means the vehicle can operate in all conditions and doesn't require any human intervention at any time.

Source : BBC and Fortune Magazine 

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It's All Political, Smoke And Mirrors...by I'm Spartacus

So the Mayor has announced the air strategy and as expected Taxis are exempt as there is a well developed plan for us.

As expected Uber put there oar in, so for Tom Elvidge's education who seems to know about all this as much as his drivers do about London, perhaps even less than the taxes they avoid (but not for much longer mate)

1. Taxi drivers can only use TfL approved vehicle types, Drivers have always bought the lowest polluting available to them.

2. Gross over licensing of PH has lead to ever increasing pollution so when Uber depart this will improve no end.

3. Soon the only approved taxi types will be Euro 6 or ZEC, there will be a scrappage scheme to encourage take up.

Anyhow Uber in their own words don't own or operate vehicles, so any data from them is wholly unreliable, they wont even say how many vehicles they 'control'.

To conclude then Uber, obey the law, pay your dues and then and only then can you comment.

Until then don't pollute London with your PR tosh!

I'm Spartacus 

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Evening Standard Launches Attack On The Taxi Trade With Fake News... By Carrie Harrison

I'm sure most of us read the Evening Standard story yesterday, whereby Zipjet the "specialist dry cleaners" carried out research, analysing contamination of the most popular modes of public transport. Remarkably, Black Taxis came out as the most contaminated. 

They even went so far to say that: 

"On the contrary, the seats of an Uber was found to be the cleanest mode of transport in the city. The double decker red bus was the second cleanest way to commute followed by the tube" ... 

Well don't you think it's very strange that one of the directors/board members of the said "specialist dry cleaners" has the same correspondence address at companies house, as the registered address of the Evening Standard!

To be honest, we've been expecting a broadside from this paper, after he incredibly bad news week their friends at Uber have received from the Mail and FT this last week. 

The Press Complaints Commission has been replaced by the IPSO, but the Standard isn't signed up to it, so the only complaints procedure open to us is the one within the Standard itself. 

Please fill in the Standard complaint form below. 

It will go to the Independent offices. 

I didn't know this, but they are under the same ownership. 

We must capitalise on this instead of just commenting amongst ourselves.

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Here's the link to he online story:

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Just to be clear :

Zipjet's address, registered with companies house is 76 Oxford Street W1. 

Whereas the address in the images above, is for one of the directors/board members of Zipjet, Stephen Riley and is stated as his correspondence address (coincidentally, It's the registered address of the Evening Standard). 

Let's see the comments readers left on the online article:

With thanks to Carrie Harrison and Murrey Gordon 

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UCG Demo On Thursday Is Calling For A ‘Parliamentary Inquiry’, Which Is Extremely Worrying... By Dave Davies.

Update, From The Good Law Limited Regarding Crowdfunding Stretched Target

Thank you for your support. 

As you will have noticed we have now hit the initial fundraising target. This means we are in a position to commence proceedings against Uber. The legislation gives Uber a period of time to provide us with a VAT receipt - until the middle of this month - and this means we can't sue it until that period of time has run out. But we will not drag our heels. Last week - even before the fundraising target was hit - I asked the barrister team to start drafting the claim again Uber and I hope and expect we will be in a position to start proceedings against them in the High Court before the end of the month.

Some people have asked why the funding target has been raised. 

If you read the original listing it explains that it is very difficult to work out how much a case like this will cost and it points out that £75k is unlikely to be enough. I also said this on twitter a number of times whilst we were raising the £75k. And although £75k is a lot of money, remember, the case could well be worth billions of pounds to Uber. 

Because the barristers and solicitors are working at low rates, I think £75k will take us most but not all of the way. If we don't hit the raised target I am likely to need to seek more crowdfunding later on. But we will still take the initial steps. Indeed, I cannot absolutely rule out the possibility that we will need to raise more money even if we do hit the raised target. But I will try very hard to avoid that possibility.

Yes, I could have asked for more money to start with - but sometimes people like to see how you spend the money they've given you before they give you more. And if you ask for too high a target you run the risk that you won't hit it and you won't be able to do anything. So I exercised my judgment.

In the meantime, you should make sure that your MP understands your frustration at the fact that it is you who is having to pay to challenge Uber's tax avoidance. You should ask him or her why HMRC isn't doing it.

Thanks, again, for your support. I know the money you pledged was hard earned.

Jo Maugham 

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