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Here's a suggestion (If you can afford to) relocate to a small town 3K-15K I was in one small town, called their service and after all was said and done they charged $.35 cents a mile plus $5 pickup charge. 55 miles was $19 I gave her $25 and used them often.
Provide a needed service and be clean and friendly, you'll do very well.
I learned to use Uber when I fly into SFO to visit my daughter.
With the "old school" taxi line, you get the next guy in line who is usually a recent immigrant who can barely speak english, who is driving a 5 year old rattletrap SUV and drives like a maniac. I don't feel safe. I question his driving skills and I had to navigate for him. The trip costs about $30 including tip.
With Uber, I generally get an educated driver with a 1-2 year old Toyota Camry or Prius. He has Google Maps up on the display, knows how to navigate, drives well, and speaks good English. The cost including tip is about $18.
I drove a taxi many years ago. It was more professional (though not as much as the London taxicab system). It has gone downhill over the years and Über may be the final nail in the coffin. No I haven't used a cab in a while, just über.
This ^^^^.... NTM, The London cabbies are rigorously trained in routing and procedure. back when one of my English relatives drove a London cab, he said that it was one of the hardest things that he's done (and he was VERY BRIGHT too.) they dont allow everyone to drive a cab there, and it's much easier to just become an Uber driver. for better or for worse, Uber is the thing now
I compared prices between cabs and Uber/Lyft for short distances in my neighborhood. Cab prices were cheaper. I've used them a couple of times in the past few years for trips to the emergency room. In one case it was an older American sedan and in the other, a brand-new Prius.
Maybe your area is underserved by uber and you should stick to cabs. I can guarantee that millions of people are not fleeing taxis and going to uber/lyft because they are paying more money for lesser service.
Calling Uber a "success"—the company is valued at $40 billion—seems like something of an understatement. Uber is trouncing the competition. There were 2 million fewer taxi rides in Washington, D.C., last year compared with the year before, Waters told me—that’s a 9 percent drop in taxi business in a single year. And taxi business declined a stunning 65 percent in a two-year period after Uber showed up in San Francisco. https://www.theatlantic.com/technolo...n-uber/386207/
Here's a suggestion (If you can afford to) relocate to a small town 3K-15K I was in one small town, called their service and after all was said and done they charged $.35 cents a mile plus $5 pickup charge. 55 miles was $19 I gave her $25 and used them often.
Provide a needed service and be clean and friendly, you'll do very well.
Jesus. There is no way they can make money charging 35 cents a mile.
taxi's are usually old police crown vics so that the driver is partitioned (bullet-proof glass) from the back seat.
i once took a car (before uber was a thing) from the bus station to about 10 blocks home. the driver told me $25 bucks (taxi wouldve been about $8). it was past midnite; i was in no position to argue or he wouldve dropped me off the docks -- literally (no dispatch log).
never again...
WTF does your little story have to do with Uber? You do realize that Uber is a completely cashless system, right? Not only that, but your entire trip, including every little turn, from the time you enter the car until the time you exit, is tracked by Uber. You also have the driver's full name, his photo, the make and model of the car, and the license tag as well.
You appear to be completely clueless with how Uber operates.
The last time I took a cab was in LA. I don't know where the driver was from, but he started to get on HWY 101 going the WRONG WAY and only stopped when I screamed at him!!
I do. I've traveled quite a bit past year or so for business, more than in recent years. I usually like it. I've stuffed everything onto an AmX Platinum of-late for the points, prior to that a Barclaycard, to prodigious mileage/points advantage by end of year. Not a brag; both simply have good rewards if you charge as much as humanly possible, business and personal as I've found, well justifying the yearly fees. Others, not so much: I get that.
SO: while I'm in management consulting, spending some coin, Uber is fine. More than fine, I'd say super-duper convenient in the cities I've traveled to and used Uber tons (five rides or more, typically). About four clicks on the Pixel XL, it's coming. Those cities being: Seattle, Nashville, Chicago, Oklahoma City, Tempe and Phoenix so far. Soon to include Little Rock.
I'm sure Taxis have their place, but I'm frustrated at the cost where they have a monopoly. Found that at OKC airport, and thirty dollar cab ride to downtown. Wasn't my money, but still seemed like a lot. Going back, Uber was about 3/4 that much as I recall.
After I retire and need to pay for all the gadgets and high living on my own dime, all that will need a radical re-think, frankly. I believe much of it will be cheaper in ten years.
One might guess that Taxis will eventually become minor players, much like the horse and buggy. Why wouldn't they.
The largest taxi service in Phoenix just closed. They are rebranding and going to an on call app system like Uber/ Lyft.
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