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No, it's a way I can get a safe and reliable ride anywhere in the world, without getting scammed by a local taxi (not just Uber, but Lyft, Ola, Bolt etc.)

henry2023 3y ago
Safety and reliability are not mutually exclusive with exploitative. It can be both.
- prepend 3y ago
  Sadly, taxis were never both until Uber. Even in Manhattan, getting a taxi at 2am was a crap shoot. I can an Uber in the suburbs at 2am anywhere in the country. That’s neat.
  - bryant 3y ago
    > Even in Manhattan, getting a taxi at 2am was a crap shoot. I can an Uber in the suburbs at 2am anywhere in the country. You certainly can call an uber, yes. Whether they come through or whether they find a suitable reason to cancel on you... that's a crapshoot.
    - CamperBob2 3y ago
      It's just plain bad faith not to acknowledge that the scenario you describe was 10x more likely to happen with taxis.
      - eganist 3y ago
        Anecdata: it's happened more frequently with me and ubers rather than cabs. So no, not bad faith, just my experience. I apologize that your experience was different. And likewise to all the downvotes who figured my experience was false lol.
        CamperBob2 3y ago
        And likewise to all the downvotes who figured my experience was false lol. No one is saying your specific experience was false, but: what happened to the taxicab industry is simply not something that happens to businesses that even bother to go through the motions of customer service. People were so eager to ditch taxis that they flocked to a largely-illegal, unregulated service that literally involved getting into strangers' private cars. If your business loses out a model like that, you're doing it wrong. The taxi cartel and their captive regulators were doing it wrong.
    - prepend 3y ago
      I’ve never been stranded by Uber. Sometimes drivers cancel, but I’ve never been stranded with no drivers as there’s someone else. Taxis failed very frequently. I can reliably plan with Uber. Taxis were a crapshoot. And I’ve never had the credit card reader broken in Uber and it seemed like every taxi had a busted machine.
hn_throawlles 3y ago
> It's basically an inefficient, but effective way to siphon money from the poor and middle class and deposit it into the bank accounts of the wealthy by utilizing the equity the poor and middle class have in their vehicles. if you're a thinking like a system, then yes, > No, it's a way I can get a safe and reliable ride anywhere in the world, without getting scammed by a local taxi (not just Uber, but Lyft, Ola, Bolt etc.) if you're thinking like a human individual, then yes. I agree with you both and I told you why

henry2023 3y ago

Safety and reliability are not mutually exclusive with exploitative. It can be both.

prepend 3y ago
Sadly, taxis were never both until Uber. Even in Manhattan, getting a taxi at 2am was a crap shoot. I can an Uber in the suburbs at 2am anywhere in the country. That’s neat.
- bryant 3y ago
  > Even in Manhattan, getting a taxi at 2am was a crap shoot. I can an Uber in the suburbs at 2am anywhere in the country. You certainly can call an uber, yes. Whether they come through or whether they find a suitable reason to cancel on you... that's a crapshoot.
  - CamperBob2 3y ago
    It's just plain bad faith not to acknowledge that the scenario you describe was 10x more likely to happen with taxis.
    - eganist 3y ago
      Anecdata: it's happened more frequently with me and ubers rather than cabs. So no, not bad faith, just my experience. I apologize that your experience was different. And likewise to all the downvotes who figured my experience was false lol.
      - CamperBob2 3y ago
        And likewise to all the downvotes who figured my experience was false lol. No one is saying your specific experience was false, but: what happened to the taxicab industry is simply not something that happens to businesses that even bother to go through the motions of customer service. People were so eager to ditch taxis that they flocked to a largely-illegal, unregulated service that literally involved getting into strangers' private cars. If your business loses out a model like that, you're doing it wrong. The taxi cartel and their captive regulators were doing it wrong.
  - prepend 3y ago
    I’ve never been stranded by Uber. Sometimes drivers cancel, but I’ve never been stranded with no drivers as there’s someone else. Taxis failed very frequently. I can reliably plan with Uber. Taxis were a crapshoot. And I’ve never had the credit card reader broken in Uber and it seemed like every taxi had a busted machine.

hn_throawlles 3y ago

> It's basically an inefficient, but effective way to siphon money from the poor and middle class and deposit it into the bank accounts of the wealthy by utilizing the equity the poor and middle class have in their vehicles. if you're a thinking like a system, then yes, > No, it's a way I can get a safe and reliable ride anywhere in the world, without getting scammed by a local taxi (not just Uber, but Lyft, Ola, Bolt etc.) if you're thinking like a human individual, then yes. I agree with you both and I told you why