Regulate not control car services

How to regulate appears to be the question when it comes to the management of online car hailing services by which one can use a smartphone to call a private car for a paid ride instead of a taxi.

But if in the minds of the regulators it is only the question of how such new services can be brought under official control, instead of how their management can make it easier for the car hailing services to develop in a healthy manner, the Ministry of Transportation will be managing the convenient and flexible new services in the same way as traditional taxis.

Yet the old mode of management for the taxi industry has long been the focus of complaints and criticism from both taxi drivers and the general public.