Ratified consensus 1 — Private cars dispatched through a digital platform should be legal. Cars dispatched through an app should not need to be painted yellow. That said, only taxis painted yellow can pick people up off the street.

Ratified consensus 2 — This is more nuanced and details will be more clear in a couple months. Building on the first consensus item, the group agreed that the government should encourage and or fund similar platforms run by coops for underserved areas, but the group had no clear consensus on whether the government should either a) subsidize the research and development of efficient tools to make the coops profitable or could b) work with the city government to offer tax incentives. Already, the Kaohsiung city said they would support local efforts; there are already ridesharing communities that can now operate for profit, so the government will help them to get more efficient with r&d or directly subsidize them.

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