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> They lost a lot of business to Uber, because of the lower prices. I assume this isn't true for everyone, but for me, price is quite a ways down the list of r

> They lost a lot of business to Uber, because of the lower prices. I assume this isn't true for everyone, but for me, price is quite a ways down the list of reasons I prefer Uber to traditional Taxi service. If I'm at an airport, big hotel, or somewhere else with a taxi line, I'll take a taxi. Everywhere else, Uber is just vastly more convenient. I'm only an occasional Uber (or taxi) user, which I suspect makes me less price sensitive than some, but my perspective is that the reason Uber is eating the taxi industry's lunch does not have as much to do with pricing or regulation as people seem to think.

fweespeech 11y ago
> I assume this isn't true for everyone, but for me, price is quite a ways down the list of reasons I prefer Uber to traditional Taxi service. If I'm at an airport, big hotel, or somewhere else with a taxi line, I'll take a taxi. Everywhere else, Uber is just vastly more convenient. Even if the hotel doesn't have a taxi line they usually have a strong relationship with a taxi company. I've had a taxi driver get woken up to drive me at the airport at 4am when no one was available because of those relationships. I can't get Uber to do that. > I'm only an occasional Uber (or taxi) user, which I suspect makes me less price sensitive than some, but my perspective is that the reason Uber is eating the taxi industry's lunch does not have as much to do with pricing or regulation as people seem to think. Given the number of times Uber has cut corners on regulation to enable that pricing...eh. I've honestly never found Uber worth using except to save money. It could be because I generally only use taxis for to/from airport<->hotel [or another business with a relationship with a Taxi company] but I've had far fewer problems with Taxis than I have the couple of times I tried Uber.

fweespeech 11y ago

> I assume this isn't true for everyone, but for me, price is quite a ways down the list of reasons I prefer Uber to traditional Taxi service. If I'm at an airport, big hotel, or somewhere else with a taxi line, I'll take a taxi. Everywhere else, Uber is just vastly more convenient. Even if the hotel doesn't have a taxi line they usually have a strong relationship with a taxi company. I've had a taxi driver get woken up to drive me at the airport at 4am when no one was available because of those relationships. I can't get Uber to do that. > I'm only an occasional Uber (or taxi) user, which I suspect makes me less price sensitive than some, but my perspective is that the reason Uber is eating the taxi industry's lunch does not have as much to do with pricing or regulation as people seem to think. Given the number of times Uber has cut corners on regulation to enable that pricing...eh. I've honestly never found Uber worth using except to save money. It could be because I generally only use taxis for to/from airport<->hotel [or another business with a relationship with a Taxi company] but I've had far fewer problems with Taxis than I have the couple of times I tried Uber.