re: Review: Uber Premium Taxi Service *EDIT: Banned in Delhi, Telangana, Thailand & Spain* I wonder why the cab company which he was working with in the first rape case has neither been named nor banned? Does every cab company get one free first time rape by it's driver? Why is the police trying to shift blame of its utter incompetence of not being able to maintain a database of cab drivers convicted of crimes and has its own department issuing forged signatures and seals for character certificates? How is it that they allow him to drive a commercial transport ever again? Why isn't the media asking these important questions and being blinded by hate against a non conventional cab company? Due to the humongous failures of the police to protect its citizens, everyone today is searching for a scape goat for every incident like this. Rather than looking at the underlying root causes that are facilitating this. Why despite sunfilm ban in vehicles did a rape take place inside a vehicle? wasn't this ridiculous move supposed to stop all rapes happening in vehicles? No, no, lets back it up by another ridiculous move by banning all cab companies that doesn't pay daily hafta to police or go through the corrupt transportation department.
Uber has it's own set of failures to deal with in this case, but this is another example of incompetent governance, if you set minimum standards, companies will only follow them. Just like the current vehicle safety standards set by the government, you cannot really blame car companies for being within the law of the land yet making death traps and calling them cars. The bottom line is Uber did nothing illegal, but the police department did by issusing fake certificate.
There is an accusation that the cab was not fitted with GPS, can someone knowledgeable of Delhi traffic laws tell me if there is a government rule mandating that all taxis be fitted with a GPS tracker? If not, then this accusation does not stand ground. Ofcourse the point remains that Uber could have had this as an additional safety measure, but then again, why was the first rape not prevented? did the cab company at that time not have a GPS tracker? Why is this being overlooked?
We Indians are notorious for halla/shor machana after something happens, take some knee jerk reactions and then forget about it totally after a few days. This incident is not a new thing. This is not the first time that some unfortunate soul got raped in a taxi. It has been more than a decade since these types of incident came to light after the BPO boom. Why, why after all these years and after all these numbers is there no tight laws to streamline cab safety? Its laughable to see the kind of reactions, reminds me of the knee jerk reaction like totally beefing up security and checking everyone in entrance to malls, offices, parks etc. totally inconveniencing everyone after an explosion takes place but a few days later, no one even bothers to check you and then the cycle starts again after another incident. Everything after the fact.
It pains me to the bottom of my heart that we have become such a callous nation. Our priorities are in the wrong place. I hope our regulatory frameworks are made stronger so that no loophole exists so that incidents such as these don't take place and even if they do, rather than finding a scape goat, find the real culprits who have created the perfect situation for the crime to take place. In a system, it is not only the criminal to blame but anyone who has knowingly facilitated the crime. Here the police and the government knowingly let a convict walk back to the same profession with no alerts send to companies hiring in this space. For all the problems that Uber has to currently fix, the truth of the matter is, they did NOT knowingly hire a rapist, but the police let off a rapist knowingly and made no effort to warn others or list him in a database of offenders.
Last edited by Cyrus_the_virus : 9th December 2014 at 13:44.
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