London Slaps Tighter Rules on Uber Drivers as Cab War Rages
- Transport authority ups requirements, including on insurance
- Cites ``unprecented increase'' of chauffeured-car services
Taxi drivers block Whitehall as they demonstrate against Uber in central London on Feb. 10, 2016.
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Uber drivers in London are facing stricter policy guidelines from the transportation authority as chauffeured-car services steal clients from the city’s iconic black cabs.
Drivers for companies like Uber Technologies Inc. must comply with English-language requirements and better identify themselves to customers, Transport for London said Friday without mentioning one specific car service. Tighter constraints on areas from insurance to fare estimates come in response to an “unprecedented increase” in demand for private-hire drivers, the authority said.