Taxi drivers here aren't bad at all but perhaps that depends on the city. Here in Europe I've only experienced this in Bucharest, Romania and there it's a known

Taxi drivers here aren't bad at all but perhaps that depends on the city. Here in Europe I've only experienced this in Bucharest, Romania and there it's a known problem that has its origins in more general societal developments. The license systems were indeed pretty bad, the scarcity made them artificially expensive which was pretty ridiculous. The problem was the investment that taxi drivers had made, it made it pretty much impossible to abandon the system. Still I don't think Uber really helps the drivers. Now they have to share their already-low wage with a megacorporation.