It said this week that Uber could continue to operate if it adhered to basic safety requirements for drivers, like proof of insurance and national criminal background checks.
At a Department of Motor Vehicles office in Jersey City, Sam Aswad said that even if the cutbacks led to shorter hours, fewer clerks and longer lines for drivers like him, it would be worth the inconvenience.
It bristles with safety features for drivers, like 99 speed-dial codes and a speech-recognition feature that calls any of 30 selected friends and colleagues when you utter their names.
NJ CURE, which is organized as a "reciprocal exchange" -- sort of a cooperative, I gather -- is actually looking for drivers like me, people with imperfect but not awful driving records.
For drivers like me who don't always want ultra-aggressive deceleration the instant I lift off the throttle, as in BMW's electrified Mini E, I can choose a gentler setting that is more suited to freeways and other high-speed situations.
For drivers like me who lease our cabs from privately owned fleets, there isn't the burden of paying for installation or repairs upfront, but the costs may still be passed on to us in the form of "surcharges" or "tax fees".
Volunteering with his son to make deliveries for Meals on Wheels a few years back, John Cleveland, a software engineer in Charlottesville, Va., who does government contracting, discovered that the coordinator at the charity's local office was overburdened by the tasks of creating individual maps to clients' homes for drivers like himself.
AutoIQ.co is built around solving very common points of pain for drivers like, "what does my check engine light mean?" and "who do I trust to get it fixed?" The service combines automotive diagnostics, mobile technologies and data analytics to create a "health record" for cars.
And for drivers like Fong, it was time to take the next step.
This confusion can have serious financial consequences for drivers like Michel.
Drivers like them for good reason: They're safe, fast, fun and economical.
