Italy goes fast, taxis don’t: a new approach to innovation is needed

Preferences, licenses, apps. The time has come to challenge once and for all the conservatism of Tassiana, which resists any change of government

One can always remember, in defense of Italian mayors and rulers, that neither Margaret Thatcher managed to bring the joy of freedom among London taxi drivers. Or the flops of the various administrations that have tried to move some licenses, to change some rules, to introduce liberalizations can be cited. We always bump into a system of rules that are impossible to improve without upheavals. Because the taxi service and its regulation were born in economically and technologically distant eras and an efficient system of political representation was created around them to protect a universal service scheme surpassed first by mass motorization and subsequently by the advent of work performance bid and pay online.