Rough ride for Uber as Morocco cabbies sabotage app

[FrodosNewPet]

Rough ride for Uber as Morocco cabbies sabotage app

https://www.yahoo.com/news/rough-ride-uber-morocco-cabbies-sabotage-app-035845867.html

AFP | January 7, 2017

Casablanca (Morocco) (AFP) - As their smartphone screens lit up with ride requests last month, Uber drivers in the Moroccan city of Casablanca must have thought that business was booming.

Instead, they found themselves surrounded by irate local taxi drivers, who forced them from their vehicles and handed them over to the police, the latest in a string of protests in the kingdom against the controversial travel app.



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"Our position hasn't changed," a senior official from Casablanca's local administration told AFP. "We see (Uber) as an unauthorised and illegal company."

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While many drivers have been tempted by Uber's model, many more operators of Casablanca's estimated 18,000 taxis continue to denounce the app's "unfair competition", while passengers still heavily rely instead on local ride startups such as Careem and chauffeur.ma

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[dhol82]

1. The whole taxi system in Casablanca needs to be overhauled

I got scammed there by the alt-ride system.
Not amusing. Tainted my whole trip.