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Having traveled and taken cabs in many other places of the world I can confidently say Uber/Lyft/Similar apps are miles ahead in user experience than the old wa
by Zaheer 3y ago
Having traveled and taken cabs in many other places of the world I can confidently say Uber/Lyft/Similar apps are miles ahead in user experience than the old way. In other cities (ex. Istanbul) apps haven't quite caught on and the cab experience is much worse.
- coredog64 3y ago9 years ago I spent a significant amount of time in Dublin and was impressed by how the local taxi drivers integrated with Hailo. The app allowed you to call a cab from an out of the way location, you could see where the cab was, and you pay (and tip) in the app. If Yellow Cab had adopted this 10 years ago, Uber would be a cautionary tale like pets.com.
- pigeonhole123 3y agoI read that Hailo ran out of money trying to expand to NYC. I lived in London when it was big and it seemed to just disappear at some point. Failing like that after becoming dominant in London is simply puzzling to me. Sounds like a license to print money once most of the cabs use it.
- disgruntledphd2 3y agoYup, and they had a franchise model so just did the tech. But Uber drove them out of business by setting VC money on fire.