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I'm very happy that Uber broke the law that protected the cab cartel. Now I can conveniently get a ride wherever I want and never have to deal with a sleazy in
by fallingknife 3y ago
I'm very happy that Uber broke the law that protected the cab cartel. Now I can conveniently get a ride wherever I want and never have to deal with a sleazy incompetent cab company ever again. When I travel to other countries I never have to deal with their shitty taxi scams.
- ska 3y agoIt certainly seemed that way at first, now I'm not convinced. They seem to be recapitulating most or all of the bad behaviors. And more expensive often enough I have to check, used to just assume it would be comparable or better unless obvious reason for shortage.
- monetus 3y agoCan you get prices ahead of time with the taxis in your area?
- ska 3y agoDepends on the area, but qualified yes - many local cab companies now have apps (in response to uber) and some of those will give decently accurate quotes. In some places e.g. airport fares are fixed rate anyway, so you can just check.
- jacquesm 3y agoNew boss, same as the old. Middlemen will always try to extract maximum profits, and even if they look better in the short term in the longer term they'll be just as bad or worse, but more entrenched.
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- JohnFen 3y agoI don't think "the ends justify the means" arguments are terribly persuasive, personally. And any company or person who is willing to break the law to succeed is not trustworthy enough to be comfortable doing business with. They may be good now, but the instant that they see a method of increasing their profit by screwing someone, including customers, over then that's what they'll do.
- mrguyorama 3y agoYeah, thanks so much for fucking with our city's perfectly working taxi industry. There's more to the world than NYC
- toomuchtodo 3y agoYou will never fix self centered or low empathy people, but have a chance with the systems we must all participate in. Choose how you spend your time accordingly. Talk is cheap, all that matters is outcomes.
- pessimizer 3y agoI would absolutely prefer a cab to Uber now. The pricing was better, the service was better, we weren't expected to mutually review each other, and I could flag one down on the street. If I walked to a taxi stand, it was instant satisfaction. The only things that improved with Uber were price and coverage, and they tried to fool us into seeing other improvements that didn't exist, largely by painting cab drivers as scary, stinky, subhuman swindlers and implying people that drove Uber were all part timers who usually worked at real jobs. Now the prices are sky high and the things take as long or longer as cabs did to show up. Maybe there's room for an Uber in tiny places that don't need cab companies or even full time cabbies, but everywhere else, they've just added another layer of rentseeking over a familiar experience. We could have gotten rid of the medallion system without replacing it with this thing. Let's make gigwork illegal so Uber will have to contract with local companies, or reduce themselves to people they're willing to employ.
- TylerE 3y agoDoesn't have to be a tiny place. My college town of 100k had like...3 cabs for the entire town - and it was a party school. Street hailing never existed.
- CamelCaseName 3y ago> The only things that improved with Uber were price and coverage Okay, but price and coverage are very, very important?