Having just returned from Australia on vacation, I’ll say it was extremely inconvenient when Uber wasn’t in a region. We even managed to get stuck in a small airport because there were no regular taxis, and the local Taxi app simply didn’t work for the required 2fa with a foreign phone number (though the UI for selecting country was there, no text was ever received).
Uber is great when available while traveling. Makes life so much easier.
That said, I fully support regulating them to have to support their drivers as any other employer. Fuck them and their repeated threats to their ball and go home. Force them out of every market until they concede and restructure.
Mr_Blott@feddit.uk 1 year ago
Um, you do realise that the only reason you couldn’t get a normal taxi was because Uber’s business model was to destroy the industry and take over?
Wrench@lemmy.world 1 year ago
… yes, they destroyed the taxi industry in a remote airport where they never rolled out service to. Right.
Mr_Blott@feddit.uk 1 year ago
Oh boy 😂
Wrench@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Your point was obvious. It’s still awful and makes bad assumptions on taxi availability and demand in an a rural area. Your entire argument seems to be based on city economics of supply and demand at scale.