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No, they are. In large part because taking uber means no 'oh, my card reader isn't working' bullshit.

• lerchmo 12y ago
  And the card reader issue is really just the polarbear shit on the tip of the iceberg when it comes to taxi crapiness.
  • jkldotio 12y ago
    I once had a taxi driver berate me at the end of a journey for not taking a long enough trip in from the airport. It was a 25 minute journey, Google says at the moment the same trip is 20 minutes and a trip to the center of the same city is 24 minutes. So the "most common trip for a tourist from the airport" would have been a few minutes longer given the same traffic and this guy thought it was appropriate to berate me for not living further out (the taxi lobby has been one of the groups blocking a train in from the airport too). I somehow doubt an Uber driver would have been giving me the same gratuitous negativity.
    • nfoz 12y ago
      > I somehow doubt an Uber driver would have been giving me the same gratuitous negativity. Why?
      • hooo 12y ago
        You'd have rated them poorly in this situation. And they get new rides faster, so they don't care as much where they go.
• ben1040 12y ago
  Also, Uber now can automatically forward receipts to Concur for expense reporting if you set it up. For the honest people who don't follow the time-honored process of using taxi receipts to bury personal expenses, it's way easier to do your expense report when Uber helps fill it out for you.