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The alternative is cab service level and pricing. Just like in the restaurant field, where if they price service into the menu, the perceived pricing uptick is
by vinceguidry 9y ago
The alternative is cab service level and pricing.
Just like in the restaurant field, where if they price service into the menu, the perceived pricing uptick is enough to make people think restaurant dining is unaffordable. Sure it's worked for one restaurant, but the owner does not intend to bring the practice to his other restaurants.
Eventually tipping culture will crop up around ride share services and everyone will know how to be a good citizen in that space, and assholes will be free to be assholes.
- MichaelGG 9y agoI don't think so. In Central America (Guatemala), I get a lot of ex-cab drivers[1]. They say the payment on buying a small car to use for Uber is about 1/3rd of their taxi rental payment. Most of them tell me they're earning significantly more. Full time drivers earn 1-2x what a call center worker makes, which is about what a lower-end software dev makes. And all this is after Uber takes a 25% cut (big, but totally justifiable), and rides are about 1/2 the price of taxis. So the alternative is not cab service or pricing. The service can always be superior, just by not having terrible queuing and apps. The pricing should naturally be lower, as taxi companies charge way higher prices. 1: The local cab companies so hilariously mismanaged things they just invited to be destroyed.
- vinceguidry 9y agoI can see it working in lower cost-of-living markets. I was more intending to analyze the US market.