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I'm not attacking you. You are describing a world you'd like to see exist, but Uber is the largest dispatcher in the real world, has massive advantages and proo

I'm not attacking you. You are describing a world you'd like to see exist, but Uber is the largest dispatcher in the real world, has massive advantages and proof is they are still growing super fast and maintain a massive lead on Lyft and everyone else. And they aren't worried about 10 taxi drivers rotating a phone. You may prefer calling a taxi using a phone. Some people still prefer traveling by ship, yet airlines continue to carry more people over water every year. No one thinks ships are making comebacks. More people use apps every year, and they prefer them. And maybe Uber guy never called back on route optimizations because they solved that problem on their own, or their problem is different from a taxi optimization.

graycat 9y ago
Someone has been attacking me. > has massive advantages I don't see their advantages as being massive or even significant. The best possible dispatching is not very good and not very difficult to do. All around the world, for nearly all customer trips, the locals can offer in nearly all respects better service at lower prices. The prices can be lower if only due to the lack of Uber overhead. For something like a taxi service, an app is not the way to go. The UI/UX of a good Web page with a Web brower is plenty good and much easier 'system managament' for both the client and the server.