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I understand but in many countries licensed cabs are pretty obvious with huge plates showing their license number and/or other markings and in my experience tha

I understand but in many countries licensed cabs are pretty obvious with huge plates showing their license number and/or other markings and in my experience that's true for Poland too. I agree though Uber does remove the need to pay attention so therefore removes the risk of mistakes.

manicdee 10y ago
You are stuck so far inside that bubble that you can't see the walls :D Imagine srriving at an airport and seeing they have signs up advising tourists how to determine the validity of a taxi. All well and good, until you find out the signs were fake and erected illegally by one taxi company to steer people away from their competitor. Or head over to somewhere like Tunisia for a while. The line between legitimate and illegitimate is so blurred as to be nonexistent. Even in my home town of Canberra we have a tightly regulated but loosely policed taxi industry, and there is no guarantee that the person driving the taxi is the same as the person whose licence is displayed on the dash.
- grzm 10y ago
  I recommend removing your opening statement. Even with the smiley, it unnecessarily adds negativity to your comment. The rest stands just fine without it.
- k-mcgrady 10y ago
  This cuts the other way too. Uber may be able to hold drivers accountable but I can't even count the number of shitty, dangerous drivers I've had. I've been down one way streets (into heavy traffic) the wrong way more than a few times. I've been driven in the wrong direction adding 10-15 mins to a 40min journey because the driver was blindly following GPS. In my experience licensed drivers know where they are going and tend to be above average drivers. And again, ensuring a car is licensed - at least where I'm from - is pretty simple. I use Uber in certain places and licensed taxi's in others but pretending that Uber gets you a safe ride is ludicrous.

manicdee 10y ago

You are stuck so far inside that bubble that you can't see the walls :D Imagine srriving at an airport and seeing they have signs up advising tourists how to determine the validity of a taxi. All well and good, until you find out the signs were fake and erected illegally by one taxi company to steer people away from their competitor. Or head over to somewhere like Tunisia for a while. The line between legitimate and illegitimate is so blurred as to be nonexistent. Even in my home town of Canberra we have a tightly regulated but loosely policed taxi industry, and there is no guarantee that the person driving the taxi is the same as the person whose licence is displayed on the dash.

grzm 10y ago
I recommend removing your opening statement. Even with the smiley, it unnecessarily adds negativity to your comment. The rest stands just fine without it.
k-mcgrady 10y ago
This cuts the other way too. Uber may be able to hold drivers accountable but I can't even count the number of shitty, dangerous drivers I've had. I've been down one way streets (into heavy traffic) the wrong way more than a few times. I've been driven in the wrong direction adding 10-15 mins to a 40min journey because the driver was blindly following GPS. In my experience licensed drivers know where they are going and tend to be above average drivers. And again, ensuring a car is licensed - at least where I'm from - is pretty simple. I use Uber in certain places and licensed taxi's in others but pretending that Uber gets you a safe ride is ludicrous.