Those subsidies are a joke (as they are with lots of other things), but the rest of it isn't worth worrying about.
Those subsidies are a joke (as they are with lots of other things), but the rest of it isn't worth worrying about.
You're forgetting how much taxi drivers are cunts as well tbh. The less interaction the better.
And the biggest pain as far as that's concerned is when you're stuck in the cab with them and they won't shut up, a problem, which presumably Uber doesn't solve at all.
They can't speak English mate. It's great.
Too working class m8.
Me and my friend got a taxi (not enough illegals for Uber here) back from town the other night, and, in what must represent the worst of all worlds, it was driven by a woman who wouldn't shut up about life as a woman taxi driver.
I remember outside ER this guy stopped in the peacock and 3 of us got in, an Islamic, and he asked us where to (town). As we were going I realised there was no meter or any other distinguishing feature to mark it out as a taxi. It cost us a tenner but I'm pretty sure it was a guy making a quick buck/on the prowl.
Almost all my lefty mates are happy to use Uber, myself included, but that's probably just because we're all massive hypocrites. Also I almost only ever need a cab in a city when it's like 4am, I'm shitfaced and staggering around near some shit nightclub and uber is just so much easier. I still get nightmares about coming out of Bumper in Liverpool and waiting about an hour for my taxi to arrive when I was at uni, and usually some cunt ends up taking the one I ordered. Me and my mates once had to wait by the bombed out church for 2 fucking hours (in retrospect we should have just walked, but it didn't feel like an option in the states we were in). When I went back there recently, in very similar circumstances it arrived in about 5 minutes.
It's also nice having polite, quiet brown men rather than angry bald white men.
I've not been following it closely but didn't they also knick some tech from somebody?
Some women are upset by the news.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-41365995
Again, how did society function pre-Uber? Have rapes gone down since its introduction? Have we all run mad?
Nah they just want Uber and are using the new found 'women are the whole world' stance in society as an ace in their deck.
Someone will presumably suggest women-only taxis as a solution, only to be confronted with the no-doubt-dreadful conundrum of what happens when a six foot bloke with a one foot beard decides to 'identify' as a woman in order to avail of the service.
The country's fucked whilst that lot are about, so we might as well just seal London off and float it out into the sea. That should take 80% of them out, and it's only a matter of time until the rest of them give up.
Not feeling comfortable getting the night bus is quite funny. For the love of jesus. The kids really aren't alright.
There are so many good quotes in there though.
Just phone up Addison Lee or god knows who else, I presume there are a myriad of private hire providers doing basically the same thing. Where are the tears for the many victims of Uber's exploitative practices? Oh, that's ok, I get a cheap ride home. They can get fucked, as can much of the 'disruption' set to largely wreck the course of human existence over the coming years.
Given the choice, I'll take the cabbie over the 26 year old marketing manager.
It comes as no surprise that people's morals only extend to the point where it doesn't inconvenience them.
They lost that Employment Rights case
https://www.yahoo.com/news/uber-loses-employment-rights-case-britain-lawyers-111037561.html
Dat thread title tho.
"The main reason why drivers use Uber is because they value the freedom to choose if, when and where they drive and so we intend to appeal,"
Sure.
They would presumably just be taxi drivers otherwise.
The 'beef' is to pretend that they're all about freedomz so that they can avoid labor laws. For the benefit of their drivers, of course.
They’re all forrins anyway.
Is this 'Poober' decision going to blow the courier racket to pieces? I think I would actually lol if it did.
Poober.
If it does then alot of people supplementing their cushy Furlouged existence are going to get fucked.
I remember reading something a while ago that represented all these things - Uber, Deliveroo, etc. that burn through money - as a gigantic subsidy for city-dwellers set to leave people high and dry when they either failed or reached their eventual monopolistic cash-in stage.
Good thread on it here: https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/...538049?lang=en