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Baffled to see Uber compared to black cabs. It's a minicab firm. It's vastly more convenient than the legacy minicab firms, because of the app, but the actual s
by twic 6y ago
Baffled to see Uber compared to black cabs. It's a minicab firm. It's vastly more convenient than the legacy minicab firms, because of the app, but the actual service is identical.
- wastedhours 6y agoBut convenience and ubiquity was the black cab's selling points, especially since the advent of live updating traffic-aware GPS made storing The Knowledge in your head an occasionally useful party trick.
- C1sc0cat 6y agoIs it? certainly in my small county town 60 miles from London why do I need an app it all works on SMS. I call the taxi company its automated asks me to push 1 or 2 for the last two trips or 0 for an operator. I tell the operator where I want to go and my name and I get a sms message with a link to a map and another one when it has arrived.