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Uber is no cheaper than normal taxis in the UK, so the prices won't be going up by a lot. We already had pretty great, cheap, taxi coverage in the UK. Not sure
by mattmanser 10y ago
Uber is no cheaper than normal taxis in the UK, so the prices won't be going up by a lot. We already had pretty great, cheap, taxi coverage in the UK.
Not sure where you got that impression.
For me, in the UK, the selling points are that it's easy to use the app, you don't have to muck around with cash and the cars, at the moment, are new.
Oh, and that I can abuse the fact that I'm relatively rich compared to the plebs to jump the queue with surge pricing. Very un-british of me.
- katpas 10y agoThat might depend on the city but in London I've found a black cab is normally a minimum 30% more than an uber. For longer journeys it can jump to double the price. Uber surge could equalise it.
- mattmanser 10y agoBlack cabs are always more expensive than callable taxis, that's the way it works in the UK. You're comparing limes to lemons. Similar, but different and differently priced. There's different rules between the two, that's why the black cabs tried to get a ruling saying that booking an uber was like hailing a taxi rather than booking it. Many other taxi companies in the UK now have apps too and are pretty much the same price as Uber as far as I can tell in all the trips I've taken in Nottingham.