Uber has won its High Court battle in the UK over taximeters
The ruling is about taximeters, the boxes fitted to cars that taxi drivers use to measure the fare.
Black cab drivers claim the Uber smartphone app should be illegal because it calculates fares like a taximeter. By law, only black cabs can have taximeters installed.
The Licensed Taxi Drivers Association says that it will "definitely appeal" the High Court ruling.
But Transport for London, the organisation that looks after things like London's Underground network, buses, and Uber, already decided that Uber's driver phones aren't taximeters:
TfL admitted in its initial ruling on the taximeter issue that there simply aren't enough laws and regulations to help it decide how to deal with Uber.
"We have always accepted the law is untested," TfL wrote. "We decided it would be appropriate to invite the High Court to issue a declaration as to the correct interpretation of the law."
Basically TfL admitted that it doesn't know how to deal with Uber because the country's existing laws and regulations aren't up-to-date. Elsewhere in the letter it went even further: "The legislation has not kept pace with advances in technology."
Here's the High Court ruling that came out today:
This won't be the end to Uber's troubles in London, though. It also faces a collection of proposals from TfL that originated by the black cab drivers' association. The proposed laws include a mandatory five-minute wait time, a ban on animated cars appearing on a map, and a mandatory fare estimate shown before each journey.