The taxis, in sf at least, are pieces of human shit. I had a badly broken leg (multiple surgeries, 10 months on crutches including a reinjury) and they were ho

The taxis, in sf at least, are pieces of human shit. I had a badly broken leg (multiple surgeries, 10 months on crutches including a reinjury) and they were horrible to me, even though I took 8-10 cabs/week. So I was deeply grateful for uber because -- and this is a miracle compared to sf taxis -- they actually came, or if they weren't going to, they told you! That's it! I was willing to pay 2-3x just for that. SF taxis: "we'll be there in 15 minutes", which was utterly unrelated to arrival time and destroyed your ability to plan your day at all. I've put these stats on here before, but even though I called a taxi every day to go to work -- stats are in an xlx not on this laptop, so this is approximate -- the 80% wait time was approximately an hour, for someone who lived at 22/valencia and wanted to go to soma. And they regularly just didn't show up ever. Or threw tantrums if I didn't shoot down two flights of stairs, but it was totally cool for them to come an hour after being called. And the card readers 'broke' all the time -- but when you refuse to go to an atm and tell them their choice is to take a card or take $0, lo it's a miracle! The card machine starts working! I had more than one driver get pissy they weren't tipped after they tried to make me crutch over to an atm to pay them. Or one who didn't start the meter and tried to charge me $30-ish for a ride that normally cost $16. Oh, and try getting a cab Thurs or Fri night to go home. It's particularly amazing that a government sponsored monopoly would treat the handicapped this way. In conclusion, fuck yellow cab in particular, but also fuck green cab and arrow. This is why no-one cared that uber ran a taxi service. Because it was ludicrously better. I stuck with Uber for a long time because they made my life work for the second half of the injury, but finally switched to lyft 6 months ago.