According to Bill Rouse, the GM of Yellow Cabs of Los Angeles, riding in an Uber car is more dangerous than catching a traditional cab. First there's a chance that your driver might be a convicted felon -- a situation, he says, that was particularly true of some of the earliest Uber drivers in Los Angeles. Rouse says there are "major gaps" in Uber's insurance which is putting the public at rest in such tragic cases as the death of the six-year old girl, Sophia Liu, on New Year's Eve of last year. Andrew Keen talks to Yellow Cab LA's Bill Rouse about the future of transportation.
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