Our whole taxi system has fallen on it's arse since Hailo rebranded as MyTaxi and subsequently turned to dirt. Like fuck am I ever getting 'an' Uber though.
Our whole taxi system has fallen on it's arse since Hailo rebranded as MyTaxi and subsequently turned to dirt. Like fuck am I ever getting 'an' Uber though.
Why?
The unregulated nature of it meaning it could be any cunt driving. It's basically a way of thumbing with your phone.
The Mrs informs me we don't have Uber anyway, so that's an even better reason I'll never get one.
The 'Labour supporting London' lot I'm referring to are your standard Citizen of the World wankers who seem to think that Wor Jez and his band of Socialist Merry Men are nice, harmless lefties rather than the anti-consumer, anti-business, anti-competition zealots they actually are. As Lewis alludes to, exposing these people to the potential consequences of their 'pinko economics' is no bad thing.
I hope they can figure out something to comply with the regulations and get it back on the road. It's a pretty great service and really convenient.
Last time I was in México my friends were raving at how awesome Uber is. My gf and I lolled them off and said regular cabs were fine, only to be received by the usual concerns of SAFETY!
Well, just last week some woman was raped and murdered by her Uber driver, which has triggered a bunch of marchs to protest feminicide. Guess who's ready to claim his e-victory now?
Plus they are known to be really good at responding to reports.
If only there was some way for the victim to report it.
What have labour got to do with all this? It was mentioned early and often.
Or is everything to do with labour?
So you jot down reg plates in every taxi you get in? I mean it's possible but it's not likely.
Look uber are run by some uber cunts (lol) and I don't agree with all their practices but I've used them for years in multiple cities and it's a great, convenient service.
And gs may have not called me a rabid lefty. I'm not sure what's going on.
Uber's been getting shit on so hard the past couple years. I fucking love it. The most popular Uber-substitute in the US is called Lyft and according to the drivers (who usually drive for both) Lyft pays em like 20-30% more net.
The info seems to have come from Lyft themselves from reading the start of this so it may well be bullshit
http://money.cnn.com/2014/08/11/tech...yft/index.html
http://money.cnn.com/2014/08/11/tech...yft/index.html
One Lyft passenger, identified by seven different Lyft drivers as an Uber recruiter, canceled 300 rides from May 26 to June 10. That user's phone number was tied to 21 other accounts, for a total of 1,524 canceled rides.It's not the first time Uber has been accused of canceling rides on a competing service. Earlier this year, CNNMoney reported that Uber staffers in New York called and withdrew over 100 ride requests with another taxi app, Gett, in the span of three days. After that incident, Uber said in a statement that they would "tone down their sales tactics."
The main concern I hear about Uber is from women because the drivers ‘could be anyone’. Mate, have you ever been in a normal Taxi? Having a badge is no barrier to being a fucking weirdo.
I might open a carry out and destroy the other ones by phoning in loads of shit orders.
The bike riders are everywhere in Sydney, as well. I've never really used it, because there's a dozen good places I can get to within five minutes form my door, and they don't normally tell you how long it will take to get your delivery until after you've ordered. Got hit by that one a couple of times.
Uber's great though. It's just so much more convenient than cabs. You press a couple of buttons, and they know where you are and where you want to go. No need to flag someone down, or talk to a dispatcher. If cabs want to compete, they need to get as convenient as Uber. Seems simple enough.
I thought everyone had the same system for taxis so it worked like Uber. We've had 3 different services for the proper taxis for years now (open app, closest taxi is X minutes away, click pick me up on the map, and you get a live notification on the phone on how far the car is away or you can watch it on the map). Unfortunately though the main one was bought out and went to shit recently but hopefully the others can work in on their base now.
It seems you guys must be more advanced than the Brits.
The choice for me (just outside London) is Uber or the dodgy blokes who line up at the station. Uber obviously significantly better value even though the latter don't anywhere near reach black cabs levels of ripping you off.
The best thing about uber is you don't need to direct the driver.
Oh and you don't need to hear racism either.
I heard some world class racism in a taxi a while back. Something about no wonder the other drivers have brown faces as they obviously clean them as often as they clean their cars.
X street please.
Where is that?
I don't know, I'm not from around here.
*silence*
Hate that.
On the racism, the idea that Uber is staffed entirely by illegals and rapist illegals (which seems to be why Nigel Farage and other nominal 'right-wingers' are against it) seems to have gained a fair bit of traction with people who probably refused to believe the stories about those Islamic school takeovers.
I don't spend much time in London so I've never used Uber, but what is it that makes them so good?
Have we really been getting taxis wrong all these years and what's next? Are the Uber owners going to tell us where we're going wrong with sandwiches too?
No, it didn't.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operat...ailed_findings
Uber works for me in Brisbane. A $25 cab driven by a dodgy looking Arab or Indian gets me to the same place a $12 Uber driven by dodgy looking Arab or Indian.
Competing would require significantly reducing their fares, which they can't or won't do. There are reasons for this - the cost of becoming a taxi driver is reasonably prohibitive (the link isn't the best, but will suffice as an overview - here). They also have to learn 'The Knowledge' (here), which can take a few years.
The business model is completely out-dated. It's from a time when you a) couldn't use any other 'convenient' service because there was no suitable mechanism for accessing and ordering that service and b) before Sat-Nav when the driver actually needed to know where he was going rather than plugging it into a computer and following the instructions. Nowadays you can summon a car on an app - the driver can use his own car and plug the address into a Sat-Nav.
The fact is that the black cabs are rip-offs and are peddling an out-dated, over-priced business model to consumers. The reason why they haven't disappeared to competitors like Uber is because they're unionised and can thus exert significant political pressure (see also, the RMT Union basically holding London to ransom because TfL suggest that computers and machines can probably replace people at ticket booths) with a degree of confidence that they'll succeed.
It's not a question of 'improving the service' so they can 'compete'. The only way it's going to survive and / or sustain itself is if it locks other competitors out and forces the consumer to use it because there's no other viable alternative or choice.
You can insert a generic anti-left wing political point here if you wish.
Two things: Less time interacting with people in exchange of more time interacting with a screen and lower prices.
The first one we can't argue against, although as Giggles say, regular cabs are starting to wise up and offer similar services. As for the latter, they only achieve that via two things: One is ignoring every law they don't like in every place they set up and the other is by having a massive financial backing from Silicon Valley which allows them to run at a loss. The first advantage is disappearing as cities wise up and stand against it. The second one, we'll see how long they're willing to wait to see if they can crush all competition. In any case, whether investors become tired of throwing money away or they achieve monopoly status, the prices will inevitably go up.
It did and it didn't. Come on Wiki ffs? You're not phonics.
And black cabs are a shit form of transport compared to illegal Pete's Mercedes.
That sounds a bit like Amazon. Nobody seems to feel as strongly about that; but then people probably use that more.
Amazon are another unscrupulous bunch of arseholes.
I do fucking feel strongly about that.
Some of your right-wing friends do too, before GS comes and lecture us about THE LEFT.