A REPORT GETS ISSUED
Matthew Daus is the Brooklyn Democratic ward heeler / hack who jumped the fence for Giuliani and got rewarded by being put in charge of the Taxi and Limousine /commission, a job which usually goes to people who have no expertise to mention with the exception of Gorman Gilbert, a traffic expert and "the man who wrote the book" about New York's taxi industry. He was brought in by corrupt mayor Edward I. Koch as window dressing after the scandals that rocked his administration (but which he personally miraculously escaped consequences for). Gilbert's reign was marked by problems caused by the city's establishment and he resigned to return to being a professor in North Carolina.
Anyhow Daus is more in the tradition of Jay Turoff than of Gorman Gilbert but he messed up so big time with the rate four button catastrophe that he had to leave. He landed in two plum jobs, one in a high power law firm and the other at City College (!) Soon thereafter he was crowned president of the International Association of Transportation Regulators, probably in recognition of the bag up job he did with his cool invention - the rate four buttion.
So, Daus issued a report that had no reference at all to how the driver safely (in terms af traffic and motor vehicle safety) operates the app/gizmo with all its literal bells and whistles as he drives the streets of the city. Of course the solution to this problem is simple.- With a nod and a wnk you make the driver promise to only use the app while standing, then you make that an actually ridiculous and impossible task. Any problem, well, that's the stupid driver's fault.
There it is dear readers. I do hope some smart liability or accident or both type lawyers are reading this thing and getting ready to go for the deepest pockets when the inevitable bad crash is caused by a driver trying to comply with the app's demands while driving.
