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I find it very interesting that you feel the taxi's are safer. My experience, like several of the other posters here, is that Uber is a much more comfortable an

I find it very interesting that you feel the taxi's are safer. My experience, like several of the other posters here, is that Uber is a much more comfortable and safer experience than a Taxi (in the US). With an Uber driver you have immediate feedback as to how the experience was, and it helps other users get better rides. With a Taxi, you have to go through a lot more steps to report a driver's behavior and hope that maybe it gets taken into account eventually. I wonder if it has something to do with the perception that Taxis are bad here in the US, that just opens up Uber to be 'better' even if there is no real difference.

gtirloni 10y ago
It seems whenever we discuss taxis and Uber/Lyft/etc, one has to make it clear what area the experience happened in. Re-analyzing my experiences, I don't feel I have enough data now to compare both services as they happened in very different cities and not enough times to draw any conclusions. So rephrasing my argument: I feel safer in my city, with the requirements the local government imposes on taxis (licensing, training, special driver license, etc) versus "anyone can drive an Uber/Lyft". Interestingly, my personal experience has contributed to make this feeling stronger but I understand that will not be the case for others. I often hear a lot of bad stories about taxis in the US and, to make me more confused, that's where I had terrible Uber/Lyft experiences. I think this only goes to show there's a huge lack of quality everywhere, with both services.