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I find Taxis to be very stressful when traveling for two main reasons: * I'd guess about 10% of the time they don't show up, so I have to bake in extra travel

I find Taxis to be very stressful when traveling for two main reasons: * I'd guess about 10% of the time they don't show up, so I have to bake in extra travel time for that. With uber I can see on my phone that they are actually coming. * With uber I know payment is all set, Taxi's will often say that their credit card machine is broken. I imagine these problems could start to get solved with a good open source software suite (with client mobile apps) and an organization to bring this technology to cab companies. Of course, creating something is hard, raising complaints is not. The cognitive dissonance for me is that a creator like RMS would write something like this instead of trying to lead people towards creating a solution.

simoncion 12y ago
> Taxi's will often say that their credit card machine is broken. Then, insist that they break out the manual credit-card processor and carbon paper. If they refuse, offer to have them call the cops. Their payment-processing hardware will probably magically start working.
- dllthomas 12y ago
  Even if that eventually gets to your desired outcome, it's dramatically more difficult and uncomfortable than Uber.
- KyleBrandt 12y ago
  That sort of confrontation is where some of the stress comes from. Also when that happens I just say I don't have enough cash (which is generally true).