Uber Preparing to Leave Houston If City Keeps Existing Rules

On Thursday May, 5 2016 Alyssa Rangel covered an article from the Texas Tribune titled "Uber Preparing to Leave Houston If City Keeps Existing Rules." This article was written April 27, 2016. Alyssa goes on to state that Uber would cease operations in Houston, Tx if the city counsel didn't back off with the rules and regulations that were being placed on them. She also stated that Houston is one of two cities that Uber has initiated the fingerprint background checks, and has already left three cities, and will include Austin if the same regulations are approved.

I agree with Alyssa, that nowadays safety is key to survival and that the world we are living in today seems to have many more issues involving dangerous situations. It is also true that we have to be more careful around people we don't know, especially drivers of Uber who we are entrusting our lives to safely get us to our destinations.

Although I am in agreement with Alyssa in that we need rules and regulations to keep us safe from danger, but it is not always going to stop it. There is always going to be something, or someone out there that is going to break the rules, and I don't think that just adding fingerprint background checks is going to change that. If it makes people feel safer, then I say do it, but the way Uber is doing things now seems to be going well, minus a few terrible situations.

I can also say that the same could be said for those who are hailing an Uber driver. These drivers have gone through security checks to be made safe for picking up and dropping off passengers, but the passengers have not gone through these checks. So it is not just the Uber passengers that need to be careful, but also the drivers as well. Suffice to say, we all need to be a little more careful in who is giving us rides and who is riding as a passenger.