西班牙马贝拉 Uber海外拓展屡受挫 遭西班牙泰国叫停

Uber海外拓展屡受挫 遭西班牙泰国叫停  

PARIS — A run of bad news for Uber continued on Tuesday
when Spain and Thailand ordered the ride-sharing service to cease operations in the o countries.
In Madrid
a mercial court judge sided with a taxi association plaint
saying that Uber must cease driving in Spain until a lawsuit contesting its right to operate can be heard. In Bangkok
the Thai transport authorities ordered Uber to shut down after finding that its drivers lacked the registration and insurance needed to operate mercial vehicles
Reuters reported.
Just one day earlier
officials in New Delhi
the Indian capital
ordered Uber to cease its operations there after one of its drivers was accused of raping a passenger.
就在一天之前，印度首都新德里的官员要求Uber停止在印度的运营。此前，一名Uber司机被控强奸乘客。
Also on Monday
a Dutch appeals court upheld that Uber drivers who transport passengers without a taxi license are violating Dutch law. The court said the pany would be subject to immediate fines if it continued to operate its UberPop service
which enables any licensed driver with a car and Uber-issued device to pick up passengers.
Uber
which is based in San Francisco
said in a statement Tuesday that the Madrid judge’s ruling was “inconsistent with broad political acknowledgment in Spain and across the European Union on the benefits of sharing economy services.'’
“We’ll defend ourselves in anyway we can legally
” Susanne Elias-Stulemeijer
an Uber spokeswoman in London added in a phone interview. She said that the pany had yet to be contacted by the Spanish judge. “But first we need to see the official document."
Uber is the most visible of a number of panies that are using smartphone technology to reinvent the taxi business. Clients use the app to hail a ride from ordinary car owners who have signed up to shuttle passengers.
The nascent service has grown at a phenomenal rate
and done so with virtually no regulation. But its success — the pany has been valued by investors at an eye-popping $40 billion and before the recent problems was operating in more than 200 cities around the world — has put Uber in the sights of public officials on various continents
sometimes because of resistance from entrenched operators
and sometimes because of concerns about the service’s approach to labor and safety rules.
The pany has even run into resistance on its home turf of the United States
one of the most freewheeling markets for disruptive technologies. On Monday
the city government of Portland
Ore.
said it would sue to stop the pany from operating.
Europe is one of Uber’s fastest-growing markets; consumers have embraced it as an alternative to the guildlike taxi services that in many cities place low priority on customer service.
Even before the Dutch and Spanish actions
Uber was finding the terrain inhospitable. A Frankfurt court in September barred UberPop from operating in Germany
the largest market on the Continent
until a case could be heard on its pliance with petition rules.
Uber may not have had its last bit of bad news. On Friday
a court in Paris is expected to decide whether to shut down the service in France.