gravitas_deficiency ,

Tech bros also just reinvented trains recently, so this is pretty appropriate

Evotech ,

At least Uber challenged the system, a system which desperately needed innovation. it was highly disruptive to the taxi market. And the taxi market is better off for it.

FlyingSquid OP ,
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Apart from Uber drivers being paid a lot less and having no one to give them any sort of legal protection or compensation if something goes wrong.

Evotech ,

I'm taking about the taxi market. I can now order normal ass taxies where I live though an app, see who accepts and track the car, pay through the app.

And these will be fully licensed taxies

cm0002 ,

What mythical app does your local taxis have.

Every single taxi "app" I've ever used have been shit. Just last year I tried one out, and the best it did (besides looking like it walked straight outta 2013 UI's in 2023) was give me an "estimated price range" which again left too much room for the cabbie to fuck with the meter/routes.

And they used those 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

Evotech ,

Bolt to name one

cm0002 ,

That's a ride hailing app, it's just another Uber/Lyft. It's not a taxi.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/41c84c78-9e2f-4c80-9836-8c06491da612.png

Evotech ,

Well, it uses taxis here

cm0002 ,

Nah, fuck taxis I'm never going to get in another scammy cab ever again.

psycho_driver ,

Except the taxi cab company has figured out how to offload the purchasing and maintenance of their fleet to their drivers. Probably pay their drivers less, as well.

chuckd ,

With Uber drivers driving their own cars, how is Uber any different in that regard?

psycho_driver ,

That's what I'm saying. Uber is the taxi company.

Maggoty ,

Really depends on the taxi company. In the small mountain town I went to college in there was a traditional company and a co-op company. The traditional company had better cars, an app, and a nice person on the phone. The co-op had old (but clean) cars, drivers acting as dispatch, and drivers that were actually happy to be there and have conversations.

Only one of those companies had nearly all the same drivers the entire time I was there.

Melvin_Ferd ,

Maybe we're all just fucking bored Kyle! and need a change every now and then to feel something, anything; to take our minds off this revolving hamster wheel of mundanity

DragonTypeWyvern ,

Go on a goddamn walk Melvin!

AWittyUsername ,

Same thing with streaming. Enshitification ensures that all services end up in the same final state it seems.

TimewornTraveler ,

before Uber there was... Kakao Taxi. and it was beautiful

Resol ,
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Was it actually available outside of South Korea?

LowleeKun ,

I never took (or had to take) an uber. A small achievement of mine.

Ballistic_86 ,

Die a hero or live long enough to become the villain

cumskin_genocide ,

I love how Uber drivers make less than taxi drivers. The system is healing..

CptEnder ,

Ngl Lemmy's one drawback are the boomers being mad about stupid shit like this.

Cool, zero wait GPS tracked and background checked drivers that work with my company's corporate account that I don't need to submit a reimbursement ticket for? No no no, BUT MUH YELLOW 19TH CENTURY CAB?!

LMAO have fun taking the "tourist" route.

Rekorse ,

"Background checked"...riiiiiiiiiiight

Theharpyeagle ,

I mean, there are some pretty legitimate concerns about employee welfare with Uber. Do the drivers get paid while waiting for customers?

CptEnder ,

They do in NYC yeah, if it falls below a threshold. I think it's like $23/hr or something.

Snapz , (edited )

"My company's corporate account covers it" - Yeah, while fucking the accessibility of any kind of reasonable taxi service for the rest of us. Eat shit, parasite.

Also, that "zero wait" would mean that those drivers would have to sit around constantly, not being paid, all to uber's profit/benefit so that you can feel like a special little person when you walk up and give Uber the credit - Some parasitic POV you have there on multiple fronts... Maybe take a bit of time to look inward on that (ooh, or just raise VC capital to found a new startup that burns houseless people's bodies for private jet fuel - win for everyone, corporate account bro!!!!!"

Saying this as a millennial, everything I don't like is a "boomer" is a lazy scapegoat. Boomers suck in the many areas where they actually, specifically suck. But in fact here, you seem to actually have a lot more personally in common with the boomers with your pseudo-reaganite, "My company's corporate account covers it" BS POV.

letsgo ,

Maybe it's a UK thing but at large public transport terminals we get lines of taxis waiting for "zero wait" business.

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