I used to live in Europe and I echo this sentiment. Getting a taxi in London, Stockholm, Munich, etc. has never been an issue. Dually, the price is fair as you

I used to live in Europe and I echo this sentiment. Getting a taxi in London, Stockholm, Munich, etc. has never been an issue. Dually, the price is fair as you can hail an alternative mini-cab (in London for example) at a reasonable rate and the service is on par with that of a black cab. When Uber came to London for example - the only difference from a consumer perspective was that (1) cabs were auto-dispatched based on technology (as opposed to a manual dispatcher like Addison Lee, etc used) (2) the car and driver quality was much higher and (3) the mobile app works universally regardless of whether I'm in London or Brighton. In NYC, Chicago, LA and SF the cab situation is atrocious, and very few private markets are set up to compete against the existing medallion monopolies.