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A taxi with pre-calculated price, driver and vehicle rating, that actually arrives on time and the driver can't take you around the city with a boosted taxamete

A taxi with pre-calculated price, driver and vehicle rating, that actually arrives on time and the driver can't take you around the city with a boosted taxameter to overcharge you. Amazing indeed.

misiek08 2y ago
On time? Here in europe (Germany, Poland, CZ) you get ETA 7 minutes, but real time is 10-12 minutes every time. It's going down and only the cost agreement is now better than taxi. Money, as always, is the only matter working here.
- xeromal 2y ago
  I don't know anything about germany but here in the US except for a few select cities, taxi service was garbage and user hostile. Uber improved it in every way. Uber gives me confidence that almost everywhere in the US I can get a predictable ride.
- mikestew 2y ago
  You’re complaining about a five minute difference between estimated and actual time of arrival? U. S. taxis would have you standing in the rain for an hour past promised pickup, and maybe they just don’t show at all. There are good reasons that Uber, et al., were practically overnight successes.
- yoz-y 2y ago
  Same in France. The initial ETA is always a lie. What’s even worse is the ETA they give you before booking the ride. Still better than taxi in general , but that’s a low bar.
- throwaway55110 2y ago
  Thanks for perfectly illustrating the impact of Uber - now you complain about few minutes! I used a "real taxi" a lot in Germany, Poland and CZ before Uber. The best approximate they gave me was "in half an hour" and it usually was more like 45-60 minutes, if it arrived at all. The usual thing to do was to take one passing by, but that got you a terrible smelly car with a ganster driver that overcharged 2x-5x. Since you mention CZ - the taxi mafia in Prague was especially legendary. Can't thank Uber enough for disrupting that.

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A taxi with pre-calculated price, driver and vehicle rating, that actually arrives on time and the driver can't take you around the city with a boosted taxamete

by throwaway55110 2y ago

A taxi with pre-calculated price, driver and vehicle rating, that actually arrives on time and the driver can't take you around the city with a boosted taxameter to overcharge you. Amazing indeed.

misiek08 2y ago
On time? Here in europe (Germany, Poland, CZ) you get ETA 7 minutes, but real time is 10-12 minutes every time. It's going down and only the cost agreement is now better than taxi. Money, as always, is the only matter working here.
- xeromal 2y ago
  I don't know anything about germany but here in the US except for a few select cities, taxi service was garbage and user hostile. Uber improved it in every way. Uber gives me confidence that almost everywhere in the US I can get a predictable ride.
- mikestew 2y ago
  You’re complaining about a five minute difference between estimated and actual time of arrival? U. S. taxis would have you standing in the rain for an hour past promised pickup, and maybe they just don’t show at all. There are good reasons that Uber, et al., were practically overnight successes.
- yoz-y 2y ago
  Same in France. The initial ETA is always a lie. What’s even worse is the ETA they give you before booking the ride. Still better than taxi in general , but that’s a low bar.
- throwaway55110 2y ago
  Thanks for perfectly illustrating the impact of Uber - now you complain about few minutes! I used a "real taxi" a lot in Germany, Poland and CZ before Uber. The best approximate they gave me was "in half an hour" and it usually was more like 45-60 minutes, if it arrived at all. The usual thing to do was to take one passing by, but that got you a terrible smelly car with a ganster driver that overcharged 2x-5x. Since you mention CZ - the taxi mafia in Prague was especially legendary. Can't thank Uber enough for disrupting that.