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Because, of course, taxi drivers exist solely to serve you and might not have been going in the opposite direction of the airport.

• tnip 14y ago
  NYC taxi drivers have been known to turn down fares that head to locations that aren't necessarily as profitable/are out of high-profit areas.
• viscanti 14y ago
  I guess the issue here is that it's illegal for the taxis to pass up fares based on where the passenger is going. The fact that it happened 5 times in a row is telling. The taxi industry is the exact group fighting for more regulations in order to keep companies like Uber from competing, but they don't want to follow the regulations currently in place. Experiencing things like this really helps show that the transportation industry is ripe for being disrupted and that companies like Uber are making serious inroads.
  • glenra 14y ago
    The taxi industry is not the same thing as taxi drivers. The taxi industry is dominated by the people who own taxi medallions, not the people who drive taxis. The people who actually drive taxis are oppressed by the idiotic inefficiencies of the current regulatory system, much like Uber is. For instance, cabbies. can't charge more when it's raining. Or snowing. Or if you've asked for an especially undesirable location.
• lucisferre 14y ago
  What? Isn't that exactly what taxi drivers are there to do while they are working. That is, take you where you are going? Why would they have been going in the opposite direction if they were picking up a fare, wouldn't they naturally be going in whatever direction the fare needed them to? This comment is ridiculous and seems to just advocate a system of poor customer service.
• mikeash 14y ago
  Would you be saying this if it was salesmen who refused to sell him a desk, or a phone company who refused to sell him service?