• richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one
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    7 months ago

    Yeah, how neat to support a company that pays cents to the drivers and skirts all legislation related to safety and taxes, right?

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      7 months ago

      I’ll happily jump ship when a better alternative is available, traditional taxis are not a better alternative. I’ll happily vote to implement any regulations covering them, even if it means that an Uber ride gets more expensive. Like I said, I’ll continue taking Uber/Lyft even if they end up being more expensive than a taxi especially if it’s that cost to pay the drivers a proper wage

      Uber drivers don’t regularly leave me waiting for hours with the promise of being “Just 10 minutes away”

      Uber drivers can’t go “This guy isn’t local, so I’m going to go the longest way possible to rack up charges”

      Uber doesn’t leave me guessing where the car is with my only way to find out is to call dispatch (Who will constantly tell you a car is on the way “just a couple minutes”)

      Uber drivers don’t just stop 2 or 3 blocks away and expect me to walk

      Uber cars have been far cleaner and better maintained than the best taxi I’ve been in

      I’ve felt far more unsafe and uncomfortable in a taxi than any Uber ride I’ve been in

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      7 months ago

      You mean Taxi drivers?

      The Taxi industries such scum that I’ll still take Uber any day over them.

      I have zero sympathy for taxi drivers.