Hmm, does that mean they used Greyball in London, or just the known sleazy uses? British regulators, just like CARB, have famously little sense of humour for stuff like that.
AIUI, the regulator had evidence that Uber had used Greyball in some markets (i.e., the known uses), and Uber were unable to convince the regulator that they had not used Greyball in London.
Not even sure how you would convince them. Full code and database audit isn't easy nor cheap and I doubt Uber wants to pay for that. Apart from that, there's no way to detect if Uber runs services to detect regulators.
Oh, I agree it's totally impossible, and the only solution is to not attempt to evade regulators in the first place. Otherwise you end up like Uber:
> We know you've evaded regulators in these cases, in other markets. How should we know whether we don't have evidence of you evading us because you successfully have or because you haven't used it here?
We didn't use it here.
> You said that in the markets where we have clear proof you used that, why should we believe you?
In my experience TfL are a pretty crappy organisation themselves. Cab drivers commonly take longer routes in order to inflate their fares. Try complaining about this and see how far you get. Worse, try seeing what happens if you are injured through negligence of a bus driver (as happened to my girlfriend). They will fight you even in spite of incriminating CCTV until they are dragged into court, and only offer to settle at the last possible chance. TfL are scum.
Do you speak from experience? I do - and they put it down to discretion of the driver to cater for traffic conditions etc - even when I could physically see the alternate route around Clapham Common was empty! Plus you get obvious contempt from the people handling your complaint for good measure. The system is not designed for the benefit of transport users.
Yeah bit of work there already. Receipts are a joke, they often give you a blank piece of paper where you write whatever you want on it. They think they are doing you are favour because they assume you are going to write more on it then the true cost so when you claim you make a profit.
