• SonicDeathTaco@lemm.ee
    321·
    4 days ago

    I can do that with my local taxi company anyway so they don’t even have that to differentiate themselves.

    • ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      108·
      4 days ago

      That’s cool. Where at? I mean, I haven’t seen any taxi in a place I’ve ever visited with an app.

      And then there’s the issue of knowing what app before you get there, or just trusting the sign on the side of the taxi, and subsequently the app to not farm your data.

        • PunnyName@lemmy.world
          352·
          4 days ago

          When Uber first arrived, fuck yeah. Taxis would take stupid routes to run the meter up to overcharge you. Often the drivers were extremely belligerent or ornery for no same reason. Using taxis has been a terrible experience for many.

          • lordnikon@lemmy.worldEnglish
            182·
            4 days ago

            the other issue that Uber helped with in the beginning was mess with Mob controlled taxi cartels that used regulation as a shield that’s why service was so poor. By skating those laws it put some market presure to improve slightly. but now that they got so big it’s back to being cappy again and the mob has moved into that market as well now.

            • ripcord@lemmy.world
              2·
              4 days ago

              the mob has moved into that market as well now.

              Do you have a source for that?

              Is it some niche thing or widespread?

              • lordnikon@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                4 days ago

                maybe a niche thing to New York and is completely anecdotal from people i know but it’s more those same cab companies moving into the ride share market.

              • lordnikon@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                3 days ago

                yeah as in the same taxi companies and their drivers use the app as drivers on top of taxi rides.

                  • lordnikon@lemmy.worldEnglish
                    1·
                    3 days ago

                    yeah or black towncar not all taxi companies are yellow with checkered stripes. they will have all the logos on the outside or in the window. Uber, Lift they run them all. They run fleets with exploited immigrants and take their cut just like the mob is known to do.

        • cm0002@lemmy.world
          292·
          4 days ago

          Fuck yea, fuck Taxis

          An entire industry that’s playing the victim. People around here are romanticizing taxis, but the shit they pulled was just as bad, if not worse than what Uber does.

          Biggest difference is their drivers were complicit in the shenanigans and primarily targeted their customers. Taking LONG routes because their customer “wasn’t local”, saying a route will “probably be 10$” and then it’s 50 and “the meter says what it says man”.

          They literally used strict regulations as a shield to hold local monopolies for decades which resulted in terrible downright scammy service, cash only for an unacceptable amount of time, 0 innovations, dirty ancient barely running cars, a dispatch who would constantly say a car “was just around the corner” for 2 hours

          The taxi industry doesn’t give a fuck about you, they’re just mad because they didn’t think to do what Uber is doing and now they’re dying.

          Fuck Uber AND Taxis, they both can rot in hell, but I don’t mind seeing taxis get there first.