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With any luck this will be 90% soon. Not 100% or those idiots will drive for Uber and we'll need to start over.
by nilved 10y ago
With any luck this will be 90% soon. Not 100% or those idiots will drive for Uber and we'll need to start over.
- brianwawok 10y agoYou can vote out bad Uber drivers. Can't do that with bad taxi drivers
- astrodust 10y agoCab drivers depend on their licenses to operate. If cities had a better way to provide feedback then revoking a license dould be a threat and bad drivers would shape up or get booted.
- brianwawok 10y agoBut they don't. At least Chicago doesn't. So the free market came up with a better solution.
- astrodust 10y agoThe "fuck laws and regulations market", which in other countries we call the "black market".
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- hueving 10y agoI've been screwed by taxi drivers more frequently than Uber drivers. I've had taxis take me on garbage routes, pretend their card reader machines are broken, and add destination fees when I was clearly in a hurry. They read me well because I bent over and took it rather than fighting it because I was busy. An entire industry that thrives on screwing people at inopportune times deserves to die IMO.
- benchaney 10y agoIn the situation where "laws and regulations" mean dysfunctional government enforced monopolies, in ok with a company saying fuck that. Even if people like you will characterize it as a "black market".
- astrodust 10y agoI'm just calling a spade a spade. People have legitimate grievances against the cab industry, I'm one of them, but that doesn't automatically legitimize what Uber is doing.
- nilved 10y agoCan you let me know those countries so I can move there?
- astrodust 10y agoGreece. Argentina. Venezuela. It's a long list.
- kasey_junk 10y agoYou can always call 311 and report a bad cab driver in Chicago. Your information will be taken down and you will receive a call back asking about the incident. I've done this several times. I do not know if there were any actual repercussions for the drivers but in talking to cab drivers they seem to believe there will be. This is almost exactly the same as the uber/lyft model except the uber/lyft model put that feedback mechanism front and center.
- pessimizer 10y agoYou can now. When Uber is the only choice, there will be no economic incentive to continue this.