Taxi drivers may switch to rideshare apps with new regulations

[Thaiger]

The president of the Thai Taxi Network Association says that many traditional licensed taxis will likely switch to driving their own cars as rideshare drivers. The statement comes in response to the government’s announcement that they have started to put together regulations for rideshare taxi apps, set to go into effect in a month or two. The new regulations would bring validity to the legal grey area of people using their private cars to give people rides for pay via mobile apps. The new plans would place some safety and organizational regulations on ridesharing apps like Grab, requiring drivers and cars […]

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[Tjampman]

Gotta agree a little with those taxi drivers, but then again you might want to look into why all the old regulations are made?

Maybe it would be a good time to at it all through new eyes, and make the same rules for everybody.