tjcmd
Retired
If I am in Sydney close to an armed terrorist, I would be glad to have someone come through the mayhem and pick me up for a mere four times normal rate. Capitalism is a really wonderful thing.
Used it Saturday night. $30 bucks to go ~15 miles to the party, $75 to go home at 1am. That was...disappointing.
I'll probably continue to use it because cabs suck when you live in the suburbs.
If I am in Sydney close to an armed terrorist, I would be glad to have someone come through the mayhem and pick me up for a mere four times normal rate. Capitalism is a really wonderful thing.
What are you thoughts on it? I'm personally very conflicted about it, and have decided to no longer use it. However I don't feel bad for taxi drivers, as they are horribly inefficient in most cities and I was pumped that they finally got sone competition.
Except that there was a traffic-blocking protest over the criminal way the police treated that poor, misunderstood, man.
sucks to see it imploding b/c i really liked using it.
What are you conflicted about?
I know they have been getting a lot of negative press lately but are they really imploding?
Uber is this decade's Napster.
Regardless of how it turns out for them in particular, the cab industry put itself on a collision course with technology. Serious disruption was inevitable.
I thought Uber and Lyft have (almost) always stuck to a 20% commission?
Drivers are making less money because those 2 and a handful of other competitors are racing towards a price floor. The past few decades have seen cab lobbies artificially inflate the value of cabs while keeping the experience at a rock bottom minimum.
In DC 90% of the cabs are total pieces of shit, they just barely managed to get credit card payments in the past year, and many of them still don't or give you shit for trying to pay with a credit card. They often have no navigation and routinely screw up the dispatches for service.
Uber may have some negative corporate stuff going but the service it provides was inevitable.