To some degree you’re making the case for Uber. The fact that you as the consumer can be completely oblivious to local cab driver idiosyncrasies is part of the

To some degree you’re making the case for Uber. The fact that you as the consumer can be completely oblivious to local cab driver idiosyncrasies is part of the appeal, as is the completely frictionless payment experience. Ok, cabs work fine in Chicago. If I get off a plane in city Foo, I have no idea what I’m going to get from a cab. I know what I’m getting from an Uber. There’s also some tacit acknowledgement in your comment that in many places local cabs are decidedly not fine. The last traditional cab I took in the SF bay drove 90 mph and charged me twice as much as an Uber. Why would I go back?