Harriet Sherwood Drivers rule Los Angeles, yet on balance the city is surprisingly safe for cycling.
After the first official licensing of hackney carriage drivers in 1838 and the formalisation, decades later, of "the Knowledge", London's black cab drivers ruled the roads more or less unchallenged.
Uber suffered another setback in London in October last year when an employment tribunal brought by two Uber drivers ruled they are workers, rather than self-employed contractors as Uber had tried to claim — making the company liable for paying holiday pay, paid rest breaks and the National Minimum Wage.
It is possible that the driver rules could be amended when the FIA's world motorsport council meets on October 12, but it would take a unanimous vote to change them and the governing body admitted there were "no plans" to do so.
An even more important draw for people like Scruggs and onetime presidential candidate Pete du Pont, another regular, are the "owner- driver" rules in the one-design fleets, which prohibit professionals from taking the helm.
The regulations have been amended multi times since their initial inception last year and, with Didi doubtless lobbying hard and using the contacts among its investor base, it remains to be seen if the local driver rules will come into force as they currently stand right now.
Nor does he want to see an owner-driver rule.
If the owner-driver rule is one of the class cornerstones, so too is the simplicity of the design.
"The owner-driver rule has really raised the skill level of all the owners in the class," said John Thompson, whose Solution took fifth in the regatta.
City lawyers warned council members that they might have to pay as much as $40 million if the court battle over the drivers' work rules continued.
