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So… like a cab service?
by throwaway5959 3y ago
So… like a cab service?
- throwaway50702 3y ago[flagged]
- uoaei 3y agoYou seem to have a specific vendetta against cab companies and drivers. Who hurt you?
- throwaway50702 3y agoCab companies and drivers, unsurprisingly. I love how Uber and Bolt changed the experience of using a taxi during the last decade. Anywhere in Europe I go, I can count on a good service - 10 years ago it was absolutely terrible. Broken down cars that the drivers probably used to sleep in taking you on a much longer route than necessary and overcharging you for that. One time a gangster like that took me to his gang when I used a phone with GPS to call him out on his route. No thanks, never again.
- robertlagrant 3y agoCab companies had to get far better after Uber appeared. Getting a taxi was a rubbish experience once.
- williamdclt 3y agoTo be fair, taxis being terrible almost everywhere across the world is a very common complain
- eloisant 3y agoIn France taxis are much better than Uber. I've had some really weird experiences with Uber while taxis where all very professional and top notch.
- martinald 3y agoThe problem is it's very variable and you don't know it if you are visiting somewhere. I had a great experience in Madrid, and terrible in Lisbon with normal taxis. Could be just luck of the draw, but with Uber at least if I'm in an unfamiliar place I have some accountability if it does go horribly wrong (taking a long journey for example), with English speaking support.
- varjag 3y agoYeah in the USA and Ivory Coast maybe.
- gambiting 3y agoWhy are you describing Uber? Here in UK that pretty much is exactly the Uber experience.....long wait times, drivers cancelling rides as they are on the way to you, cars that smell like piss.......can't comment on the gangsters stuff, but jesus christ Uber is 10x worse than local taxi companies here, at least they keep some standards.
- kennywinker 3y agoI’ve not used uber a ton, but i have definitely waited 20min for an uber. I’ve also never had to wait out surge pricing to catch a taxi
- bigpeopleareold 3y agoIn Norway, Uber is barely present here. The established taxi companies do a very good job with none of those problems (but like everything here, they are pricey.) I think it really depends where you are.
- kgeist 3y agoHere, before the rise of Yandex Taxi (which eventually bought Uber Russia), we used to have several independent "taxi aggregators", you'd call them and they'd tell you your car's license plate and when it would arrive. I don't remember it taking any longer than Yandex Taxi/Uber. Now it's actually worse, since Yandex Taxi has bought the majority of local taxi aggregators, it feels like the quality is worse than before because they're a monopoly and there's no competition.
- gnicholas 3y agoExcept you have to have an account to use Uber, even over the phone.
- Animats 3y agoYou have to wait to talk to a human? I was expecting a good AI voice system. "Your call is important to us. Please stay on the line for the next available agent..."
- unsupp0rted 3y agoWe are experiencing higher than normal call volume, where normal is 0 calls, so you calling us now is a massive influx.