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Just got back from Munich, Taxis were plentiful, clean and Mercedes E class. Also didn't accept credit cards, got denied service from the train station because

by influx 8y ago

Just got back from Munich, Taxis were plentiful, clean and Mercedes E class. Also didn't accept credit cards, got denied service from the train station because the address was deemed too close and the fare too small for the guy to lose his spot in line. Ended up walking several miles with luggage because I couldn't get a Uber. Not a fan.

anyfoo 8y ago
> Also didn't accept credit cards Credit cards aren't so widely accepted in Germany, that being said I was always able to get a taxi that takes credit card if necessary. > Ended up walking several miles with luggage I find that hard to believe in a city with such dense and extensive public transport? I lived there for 30 years and don't think I ever had to walk several miles, provided I was still within city limits. Where were you that you were without public transportation?
- influx 8y ago
  Oh I'm absolutely sure I could have found a bus or tram, but I literally got off new into the city and didn't know the routes or how to buy fare. Contrast, when I got to Paris and London, I opened the same Uber app that I have in the USA, with the same credit card and it "just worked".
  - anyfoo 8y ago
    So basically you not only did not do your basic homework before arriving in a new city (which would also have told you that credit cards are less than ideal in Germany), you didn't even bother reading the informational material that's plastered all around the train station? Or just asked someone? Or at least, after failing to accomplish what millions of citizens and tourists do every day, try to hail another taxi while walking "several miles" (which is an insane distance to walk in a city for European standards)? As someone who is now living in the US after the mentioned 30 years in Munich, I almost understand how looking up the basics of transportation for a brand new city escaped you, but still, you get absolute no sympathies for me. Your argument boils down to you expecting something to be the same as what you know, not it being better. You expect a good system to get worse because of your ineptitude to navigate a non-US city.
    - kjeetgill 8y ago
      > So basically you not only did not do your basic homework before arriving in a new city (which would also have told you that credit cards are less than ideal in Germany), you didn't even bother reading the informational material that's plastered all around the train station? Or just asked someone? Or at least, after failing to accomplish what millions of citizens and tourists do every day, try to hail another taxi while walking "several miles" (which is an insane distance to walk in a city for European standards)? So basically, you see the value proposition of Lyft/Uber.
      - anyfoo 8y ago
        Making the whole system effectively worse, just so some dolt who is not up to the trivial task of taking a bus or a taxi reaches this monumental achievement is not a good value proposition at all, no.

by influx 8y ago

anyfoo 8y ago

> Also didn't accept credit cards Credit cards aren't so widely accepted in Germany, that being said I was always able to get a taxi that takes credit card if necessary. > Ended up walking several miles with luggage I find that hard to believe in a city with such dense and extensive public transport? I lived there for 30 years and don't think I ever had to walk several miles, provided I was still within city limits. Where were you that you were without public transportation?

influx 8y ago
Oh I'm absolutely sure I could have found a bus or tram, but I literally got off new into the city and didn't know the routes or how to buy fare. Contrast, when I got to Paris and London, I opened the same Uber app that I have in the USA, with the same credit card and it "just worked".
- anyfoo 8y ago
  So basically you not only did not do your basic homework before arriving in a new city (which would also have told you that credit cards are less than ideal in Germany), you didn't even bother reading the informational material that's plastered all around the train station? Or just asked someone? Or at least, after failing to accomplish what millions of citizens and tourists do every day, try to hail another taxi while walking "several miles" (which is an insane distance to walk in a city for European standards)? As someone who is now living in the US after the mentioned 30 years in Munich, I almost understand how looking up the basics of transportation for a brand new city escaped you, but still, you get absolute no sympathies for me. Your argument boils down to you expecting something to be the same as what you know, not it being better. You expect a good system to get worse because of your ineptitude to navigate a non-US city.
  - kjeetgill 8y ago
    > So basically you not only did not do your basic homework before arriving in a new city (which would also have told you that credit cards are less than ideal in Germany), you didn't even bother reading the informational material that's plastered all around the train station? Or just asked someone? Or at least, after failing to accomplish what millions of citizens and tourists do every day, try to hail another taxi while walking "several miles" (which is an insane distance to walk in a city for European standards)? So basically, you see the value proposition of Lyft/Uber.
    - anyfoo 8y ago
      Making the whole system effectively worse, just so some dolt who is not up to the trivial task of taking a bus or a taxi reaches this monumental achievement is not a good value proposition at all, no.