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Black Cab drivers have zero incentive to prolong a route to increase the fare. The pickup fee premium (the charge for simply stepping in the cab) means they wan
by Marazan 11y ago
Black Cab drivers have zero incentive to prolong a route to increase the fare. The pickup fee premium (the charge for simply stepping in the cab) means they want to edecute the route as fast as possible so thry can do more pickups.
A black cab drivers ideal life would be a non stop series of 100 yard journeys.
- dnautics 11y agoThat is a good observation, but it does scale with the supply/demand ratio. If the demand is slack, and getting 100 yard journeys would be difficult, then this is not necessarily true anymore.
- mstade 11y agoAh! This would explain why those times I felt the driver was intentionally taking a (much) longer route where always late at night, when going home to an area where it'd be unlikely for them to catch a fare going back the other way simply due to there being little to no foot traffic around.