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>for passengers you get a cab instead of shouting like a cave-person on the street. Maybe I'm a cave person but to me just waving to hail a cab or just enterin
by ginko 4y ago
>for passengers you get a cab instead of shouting like a cave-person on the street.
Maybe I'm a cave person but to me just waving to hail a cab or just entering the first car in line at a taxi stand seems much more convenient than having to fiddle around with a mobile app and wait until it arrives.
- wegwerfbenutzer 4y agoNot if these taxi drivers do their best to scam you.
- golergka 4y agoIt's convenient to you to wait for a cab to appear for 20 minutes in rain and snow instead of opening an app inside?
- jon_adler 4y agoIn addition to taxi ranks in popular areas, my local area (U.K.) has local taxi companies with their own apps. You can even still call them on the phone (quaint as it is) to make a booking.
- mst 4y agoSame in my bit of .uk. Now, admittedly, the app I use most often is stunningly ugly and has almost zero features, but it -does- have the feature of 'reliably producing a taxi when I type my name and location into it' and so long as that part works I don't really care much about anything else. (in several areas of .us I've found that the taxi experience is "call them, one might turn up at some point" so I can see uber's tracking of the car as it approaches to be a welcome security blankie for people who've been traumatised by the local taxis)
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- bergenty 4y agoMaybe if you live in the very heart of big cities. Otherwise there’s no way most of the US can flag a taxis. Uber replaced limo service which costs atleast three times as much.