Figure 1. Uber's Smartphone Personal Vehicle Service. (Credit: Uber)
(Source: cnet.com)
'Uber Boston 2012'. - State division ruled the private car service was illegal due to a lack of national guidelines for use of GPS location technology in commercial transportation.
It looks like Uber is being driven out of another city. Uber, the quickly-growing startup that lets people request private car service via their smartphones, has received a cease-and-desist letter from the Division of Standards of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, ordering it to stop operating in Boston.
The letter (see below) states that until the National Institute of Standards and Technology issues guidelines for use of GPS location technology in commercial transportation, Uber can't allow the public to use its app.
"GPS has not been used in commercial applications for assessing transportation charges until Uber Technologies, Inc. introduced its use for this purpose," the division said in an August 1 ruling. "The major problem at this time is the fact that that there are no established measurement standards for its current application and use in determining transportation costs similar to that of approved measurement systems for taximeters and odometers."
The service must be shut down because "Massachusetts law does not sanction unapproved devices for use in commercial transactions," the ruling said.
Uber said the commonwealth's regulations were not written with "cutting edge" edge innovations in mind and is trying to work with the department to keep the service running.......
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