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The existing taxi industry has largely been crushed by Uber, while Uber would love nothing more than to get rid of pesky "driver-partners" who have the effronte
by teractiveodular 2y ago
The existing taxi industry has largely been crushed by Uber, while Uber would love nothing more than to get rid of pesky "driver-partners" who have the effrontery to demand annoying and expensive things like fair working conditions and health insurance. And this isn't just speculation, Uber has already announced a partnership with Waymo rolling out from 2025.
- beAbU 2y ago> The existing taxi industry has largely been crushed by Uber I have limited experience, but my two data points: In South Africa Uber and the existing taxi industry operate on two completely separate and non-mixing markets. Even though Uber (and similar services) is getting a lot of abuse from the taxi industry, I don't think the taxi industry has really been affected by Uber at all. In Ireland Uber is basically non-existent. Only sanctioned taxi drivers are allowed to be drivers on Uber. So they are basically just regular taxi drivers who happen to be drivers on the Uber app. It's actually really difficult to get an Uber where I am, there's only like one or two of the taxi drivers who are actually on the app.
- teractiveodular 2y agoI have extensive experience, and the only other country I can think of where ridesharing apps are straight up banned is Mongolia. The last major holdout was Japan, which until recently only allowed licensed taxis to be hailed, but they've started experimenting with liberalization as well. Uber's own stats are 9.4 billion trips across 161 million users in 2023, and this excludes those markets where it has withdrawn in favor of other rideshare providers (Didi, Bolt, Grab, Yandex, Careem, etc).