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发帖数: 1034 | 1 January 24, 2015 9:07 AM
Daniel Terdiman
Updated at 12:46pm Pacific with a statement from the DMV.
In an abrupt turn of events, the California Department of Motor Vehicles has
retracted a new rule that forced drivers of services like Uber and Lyft to
get commercial plates for their vehicles.
Earlier this month, the DMV issued the ruling, which seemed to contradict a
California law that said that drivers for such services were people using
their “personal vehicles.” The DMV’s new edict also countermanded
language issued by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), which
governs ride-sharing services, that allowed the use of personal vehicles by
ride-sharing drives.
Both Lyft and Uber had been adamant that the DMV rule had overstepped its
bounds.
In a statement to VentureBeat yesterday, Lyft said that “Requiring Lyft
drivers, including those who drive just a few hours a week, to get
commercial plates would essentially treat peer-to-peer transportation the
same as a taxi, undermining the thoughtful work done by the CPUC to craft
new rules for ride-sharing in California.”
In its own statement yesterday, Uber said that the CPUC allows its drivers
“to use personal vehicles with personal registration on the UberX platform.
Earlier this year, Governor Brown and the California Legislature agreed
with the CPUC when they passed a … bill that affirms that … drivers may
use personal vehicles.”
The opposition seems to have worked. In a statement provided to VentureBeat,
DMV director Jean Shiomoto said the agency has backed off its decision. “
There remains uncertainty about the interaction and effect of this law
governing vehicle registration requirements with the more recent regulatory
and statutory changes affecting ride share operators,” Shiomoto said. “We
jumped the gun, and we shouldn’t have. The matter requires further review
and analysis which the department is undertaking immediately.”
Shiomoto added that the DMV will now meet with regulators, as well as the
ride-sharing industry, to discuss how to handle the issue of registering
drivers. For now, though, the ruling has been revoked. |
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