except in many places you never had reliable taxi service. they would just drive past you if they did not like how you looked let alone avoid your area if they

except in many places you never had reliable taxi service. they would just drive past you if they did not like how you looked let alone avoid your area if they decided it wasn't worth their time. let alone the fact many work under conditions no uber or lyft driver would. if anything taxi companies had to up their game treating both their employees and customers better and they did not want to because they had the service locked down to themselves