Hello,
From the apparent justifications for the regulations, I think some issues are being conflated, unfortunately. I am thinking at least 3 issues exist and could be dealt with separately.
1. Accidents and crime - Might it help to broaden the regulations to cover normal offline taxis. If anything digital taxi-hailing provides increased possibility for passenger safety than normal taxis. It seems pointless to provide a fix for what is not really broken.
2. Owners / Drivers / Operator feuding on commercials - These ideally should be maintained as commercial leasing agreements (drivers with owners) and marketing service agreements (Drivers with operators). The employer-employee narrative misses the point on the platform economy where actors should be considered autonomous and responsive to the market forces.
3. Tax evasion and revenue collection - This seems to be the main thrust of the regulations. To check on tax evasion by operators - Uber, Bolt, etc is welcome and timely. Legal technicalities on tax avoidance will remain. To squeeze out more taxes and fees from drivers and vehicle owners is fair - not sure about timely - If it were me, I would let the gig economy grow roots first, for a couple more years.