[HN Gopher] Black cabs roar back into favour as app firms put up...
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       Black cabs roar back into favour as app firms put up their prices
        
       Author : edward
       Score  : 12 points
       Date   : 2021-10-30 21:29 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | Traubenfuchs wrote:
       | Vienna: Cancelled my last 10 late night rides after they lied
       | about arrival times that usually turned into something between
       | ,,driver rejecting me until one 30min away accepts me" and
       | ,,infinity".
       | 
       | Running/walking to a taxi stand or just taking late night public
       | transport is now generally faster. Also, it's not cheaper
       | anymore. Uber is dead here.
        
       | version_five wrote:
       | Anecdotally this has been going on for a while, at least where I
       | am. When uber first started, the cab industry sucked, and needed
       | "disrupting". That may still be true some places, but uber was
       | able to peak and stagnate faster than anyone could imagine. I've
       | been taking calling taxis for the last few years, and generally
       | they come faster, are cheaper, and more professional.
       | 
       | And ironically, I've come to really dislike uber, so I'm happy to
       | support cab companies instead. I say ironically because when I
       | first started using uber, I was happy to he depriving my local
       | cab companies of income because of how user unfriendly and
       | entitled they had become under a medallion system.
        
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