Uber Preparing To Leave Houston If City Keeps Existing Rules

Through The Eyes of Texas  - My classmate Alyssa wrote about Uber and how they are preparing to leave the city of Houston if the city keeps existing rules.
I wrote about this article couple blogs back and believed that they should not be regulated and controlled by the government. However my views have changed after reading Alyssa's blog and getting a feedback from Professor Seago. Both raised a question in my head if companies like Uber really should operate without zero regulations by the city and the answer was no. Although I don't completely taken the side of the government having all the regulations over independent companies like Uber, I do agree on the fact that such regulations should exists for the purpose of our and the cities safety. With that being said, Uber's currently existing rules and the process of employment allows safety and protection for customers. Alyssa stated that its only fair for us and safe for us that these Uber workers go through such process and that no complete trust can be put on these people. I support this statement because I, too, am an uber customer. However, it can be debated that Uber has decreased the amount of DWI and drunk driving throughout the years of operation. It has improved our citiy in a way that's keeping us safe. My views has changed little since my last blog about Uber. They should have some sort of regulations and rules upon them if and when they are not doing a proper job of safety.  In the areas they lack on, government should regulated and assist but not control over it. Allowing government to take some control over your regulations is giving up certain rights that your company has. Unless the company is a negative contribution to the city such as having skeptical driver, unsafe driver, unsafe operators, I do not see giving away many regulations and rules to the government as the best choice.  

Last Blog - What Could UT Do To Be Safer

LONESTAR MADNESS - One of my classmate's blog was about the rising problem of safety concerning about UT campus. She talked about how and what the University could do in order to allow students to feel safer. I agree with Lonestar Madness when it comes to applying many different kinds of actions towards students safety such as allowing more bicycle officers riding around late at night especially near west campus area where homelessness is clouded. She also mentioned about safe cameras to detect any suspicious activity and special kind of id cards called proxy cards to allow only students to be in control over dorm doors. These methods definitely will improve students dormitory's safety.
There's always should be certain kind of boundaries when we discuss about limits. Lonestar Madness mentioned at her very last sentence that you cannot make the school "too safe" because it'll be what we call prison-like. Unlike the other methods of safety actions, I personally think metal detectors will only make sense of unsafeness to the students. Imagine if you are just simply wanting to go to class for a lecture and will have to walk through a metal detector for any kinds of weapon. This to me, would force me to believe that something is unsafe in the campus. Skeptical about the imagination of the reason behind these metal detectors. Are there terrorists? Thieves? Some sort of an gun incidents? These feelings would only leave students to feel more unsafe.
UT campus needs improvement on the subject of safety in campus. However we must keep in mind that incidents like Haruka Weiser, a murder, has not happened for over a 50 years period in UT. The statistic shows that UT is not, statically,  dangerous environment to be in. But regardless of statistics, if the students feel unsafe, these methods needs to be taken immediately.

Uber Preparing to Leave Houston

TEXAS TRIBUNE - In Houston, TX, Uber has announced that they will leave the city if the city keeps on with the regulations and rules. The city is already requiring fingerprint background checks and other regulations that will hold Uber and other driving companies into certain limits and restrictions. Uber is not going to put up with this anymore, threatening to leave the city of Houston.

Austin is also going through with this kind of process with proposition 1. City of Austin also feels that they will need to restrict and keep the community safe by putting on regulations for Uber. 

I believe that the local government is more intended to take control over Uber with an excuse of keeping the city safe and better. With such rapid growth Uber and other driving companies have, the city is afraid that they will lose control over what is now the most outgrowing transportation in cities all around. I believe we need to be concerned about this kind of act of government and be involved in such situation and take a stand in keeping our liberty. With transportation being a big part of our lives, Uber and other companies gives the community many economic benefits towards the future. This cannot be interrupted by the power greed of our government.

I believe that Uber and other driving companies should have the rights to be unregulated by the government if it is not disrupting the economical growth in our states.