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ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 3 months agoThat’s cool. Where at? I mean, I haven’t seen any taxi in a place I’ve ever visited with an app.
And then there’s the issue of knowing what app before you get there, or just trusting the sign on the side of the taxi, and subsequently the app to not farm your data.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 months ago
snooggums@midwest.social 3 months ago
Wait, you trust cab companies less them uber?
PunnyName@lemmy.world 3 months ago
When Uber first arrived, fuck yeah. Taxis would take stupid routes to run the meter up to overcharge you. Often the drivers were extremely belligerent or ornery for no same reason. Using taxis has been a terrible experience for many.
lordnikon@lemmy.world 3 months ago
the other issue that Uber helped with in the beginning was mess with Mob controlled taxi cartels that used regulation as a shield that’s why service was so poor. By skating those laws it put some market presure to improve slightly. but now that they got so big it’s back to being cappy again and the mob has moved into that market as well now.
ripcord@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Do you have a source for that?
Is it some niche thing or widespread?
Jarix@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Hack the Planet! Hack the planet!
Sorry I have zero cool
jaybone@lemmy.world 3 months ago
You mean the mob has moved into the Uber market?
cm0002@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Fuck yea, fuck Taxis
An entire industry that’s playing the victim. People around here is romanticizing taxis, but the shit they pulled was just as bad, if not worse than what Uber does.
Biggest difference is their drivers were complicit in the shenanigans and primarily targeted their customers. Taking LONG routes because their customer “wasn’t local”, saying a route will “probably be 10$” and then it’s 50 and “the meter says what it says man”.
They literally used strict regulations as a shield to hold local monopolies for decades which resulted in terrible downright scammy service, cash only for an unacceptable amount of time, 0 innovations, dirty ancient barely running cars, a dispatch who would constantly say a car “was just around the corner” for 2 hours
The taxi industry doesn’t give a fuck about you, they’re just mad because they didn’t think to do what Uber is doing and now they’re dying.
Fuck Uber AND Taxis, they both can rot in hell, but I don’t mind seeing taxis get there first.
ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
I don’t trust Uber either.