What started in Mumbai and Hyderabad also affected Bangalore yesterday, after drivers on the Uber platform vandalised Uber’s HSR Layout office, according to this NextBigWhat report. The report added that the drivers were protesting against the lack of proper incentive structure. In a statement to MediaNama, Bhavik Rathod, Uber’s Bangalore GM, said that a handful of drivers were protesting outside its Bangalore office, and had been instigated by ‘specific groups and associations with vested interests, determined to disrupt our operations… and on a quest to instil fear and uncertainty amongst the driver community’. He added that ‘the vast majority of its drivers in Bangalore had positive sentiment towards the company’. Protests against car aggregators and self drive cars in India 1. The beginning: Taxi strike In June 2015, taxi drivers and auto rickshaws went on strike protesting against apps like Ola and Uber in Mumbai. As many as 150 cabs were damaged in violence and incidents of regular cabs overcharging were reported after cab aggregators did not ply their cabs in the city. 2. Taxi union in Leh-Ladakh goes on strike against self-drive cars Towards the end of July, Zoomcar issued advisory to its users after the taxi union of Leh-Ladakh started damaging cars and threatening users of self-drive cars from entering the area. All outside cars were being restricted from entering Leh, despite Zoomcar’s commercial vehicle designation allowing its users to drive anywhere in India without a special driver’s license of badge. 3. Mumbai groups demand aggregators only allow…
