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I think riders can bid more to have better chances to get accepted by drivers.
I'm sure glad uber "disrupted" the industry from what it was to a marketplace of bidding for a taxi. The system we had previously where you said "I want a taxi" and then a taxi came, and then you paid for it and the driver was paid appropriately was obviously unworkable after working for a hundred years.
This isn't a dynstopian nightmare at all.
Lol
Waving a taxi down could work like the movies. And they often say around bars to take people home.
But if you wanted picked up from a home by a taxi, you'd call and a taxi would show sometime between 5 minutes and 2 hours. Sometimes longer, sometimes not at all.
Taxis fucking sucked
Totally agree, but I feel like the problem was the booking system, not the taxi.
I was traveling recently, and Uber had partnered with a local taxi company to handle ride requests. It was awesome. You get the convenience and speed of calling an Uber, but the vehicles and drivers are all regulated and paid by the taxi company. No questionable gig economy work, no wondering if the driver is getting paid fairly, no concerns over shady drivers, no ill-kept vehicles.