The authority, which has broad powers under state law to determine fares, is likely to vote to reinstate the increases it approved in March and put into effect earlier this month.
The city's Business Affairs and Consumer Protection department (BACP) last week issued proposed regulations that would essentially prohibit car services from using electronic devices to measure time and distance to determine fares when picking up and charging users.
Uber's issues in Chicago are a great example: There are no regulations today around using a mobile phone or GPS to determine fares, because that technology wasn't being widely used until two years ago.
Earlier this week, Uber faced another challenge in its effort to disrupt urban transportation, as Chicago's Business Affairs and Consumer Protection department proposed new regulations that would prohibit car services from using electronic devices to measure the time and distance traveled as a way to determine fares for riders.
Key to that trial is integration with the taxi meter system for determining fare and payment.
Last summer, the on-demand car startup received a cease-and-desist letter from the Standards of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, apparently because the state had no guidelines in place for using GPS technology, which Uber relies on for picking up passengers and determining fares.
At the heart of the dispute is Uber's use of GPS location technology to pick up riders and determine appropriate fares.
In response, Uber and Lyft argued that those seemingly flat fares offered in UberPOOL and Lyft Line are in fact based on time and distance, and disclosed information about the algorithms used to determine the fares to CPUC.
First, determine the single fare, and if the group fare is higher for each ticket, split the purchase into individual bookings.
In the long term, your attitude, not your exam results, will determine how you fare.
