Posted on 12/30/2021 8:47:40 PM PST by SeekAndFind
I’d still rather take a cab. Dispatcher on the other end of the radio, auto inspections 2x a year, and background checked and ID’d drivers.And you can tell a taxi from some jerk trying to impersonate an uber.
The reason taxi medallions were so expensive is because the cab companies paid off the politicians to price out startup taxi companies.
Your ride share app has both yours and drivers gps on constantly and they also do most of taxi. Far more secure that way. Taxi industry is outdated and in most cities are negative value both in cost and service.
Start app, enter address, select driver, watch whole process proceed on map, get in, get out, done. Payment automatically reconciled. Works dang near anywhere, with just two apps.
Can’t grasp how “cabs” exist now.
These were not independent drivers but large cab companies.
I’m old enough to remember courteous American taxi drivers who happily helped you with your luggage, opened the door for you, and spoke good American English. They had to pass exams showing their knowledge of city streets and could get you to your destination without paper maps or GPS.
Like so much of “the good old days,” that world is gone.
Today I’d much prefer a nice Uber ride. The drivers almost all have very nice, comfortable and late model sedans.
“The drivers almost all have very nice, comfortable and late model sedans.”
Both Uber and Lyft have vehicle type and age requirements. You’ll never find a driver for either piloting a cherried out ‘68 Impala.
Cabs have similar apps.
The last time I rode in a cab it was filthy, it stank, the driver could barely speak a word of English and the radio was blaring some kind of belly dancing “music”. Never again will I ride in a cab. I’ve used Uber and Lyft and have had zero issues with them.
The only thing dirtier than a NYC taxi is the home country of the Paki driving it.
Precisely. The whole system is nothing but pure rent-seeking, one of the best examples out there.
>>The last time I rode in a cab it was filthy, it stank, the driver could barely speak a word of English and the radio was blaring some kind of belly dancing “music”.
Same here - except the last Uber I took also had non-english speaking driver with middle eastern music blaring so loud I couldn’t even communicate with the driver. Car was cleaner though.
We like Uber.
A few short years ago, we took an Uber in Denver, CO.
Nice guy, former Marine. But his big ratty Jeep was falling apart. I gave him a best review, but told him personally that his ride was junk.
huh?
Once again the idiocy and ignorance of diblasio and left wing NY politicians to the rescue. They scream and cry about globull warming and climate change- so what do they do in this craphole state?? Right- put 150,000 ubers and lyfts on the streets which not only devastates the taxi business but- wait for it- clogs all the streets and highways with exhaust emitting traffic!!!!
In NYC it is difficult to find parking, and parking lots charge a huge amount of money. Taking carbs or public transportation is the only way to get around Manhattan and most of the rest of NYC.
The reason for the attack was that the driver thought the cousin had dissed his car....(???)
The NYC taxi medallion business was a huge racket for decades. It was tightly controlled by a few large owners among a small number of independent operators. There was a monopoly and every time a single medallion would come up for auction it would sell for millions. Now they are worth a small fraction of that. Owners who saw the light of Uber changed their business model and have succeeded while those who clung to the old model were left in the dust.
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