How many government employees does it take to equal a cellphone app?
That’s the satirical question Blake Ross attempts to answer in a look at “longhauling” in Las Vegas. Noting that Uber has been forced to temporarily suspend operations in the city thanks to a federal judge, Mr. Ross points out that Uber’s in-house software, already famous for its “god mode”, can immediately determine whether its drivers are taking an unnecessarily long route between the airport and the Strip. Normal taxis have no such supervision, so steps have been taken:
I am blown away by the admirable tenacity of the Nevadan government. The complaint Word doc; the bad driver Excel spreadsheet; the Powerpoint airport sign—when it comes to Microsoft Office 2003, Nevada has tried it all.
As I’ve pointed out on my personal website, we live in a world where the federal government knows your call data records for the past ten years but seems mysteriously unable to say exactly how many police shootings there were in the United States last year. That’s government in action: able to drive a tank through a building full of kids because they don’t like the pastor of their church, unable to figure out how to make taxi drivers stay out of a tunnel.
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