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The Saudi > Softbank > Uber subsidy ride is over.

• Analemma_ 3y ago
  Yeah, what's actually happening here is that Uber fares are now climbing to what they "should be" in a functional market; the people accustomed to 15 years of artificially-low prices will need time to readjust. (Edit: the people elsewhere in this thread saying things like "Uber used to work better than taxis, but lately drivers have started refusing to take me to out-of-the-way locations" are arguably seeing the exact same phenomenon. This is just what taxi drivers do in a normal market, because they're rational actors maximizing their hourly earnings. That was disrupted for a while by the entry of new players making the market topsy-turvy, but now that those distortions are smoothing out it's back to business as usual. You should get used to it.)
  • makestuff 3y ago
    In NYC the Curb app is honestly way better. It pairs you up with a taxi (they could've killed uber years ago if they built this app in 2012) and you pay significantly less as there is no surge pricing, you are charged based on the yellow cab fare rules.