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Cake day: November 6th, 2023

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  • In my country, Uber fixed a lot of problems that existed with Taxis.

    • Sometimes taxis wouldn’t show up.
    • Sometimes taxis wouldn’t pick up certain people because of how they look
    • There was no app that’d show you where the nearest taxi was and when it’d arrive. I’m not aware of any taxi company that has such an app now…yet there’s an app that’ll show you where the busses are (even across different transit agencies)
    • You wouldn’t know how much your trip would cost until you arrived at your destination.
    • Drivers would take longer routes or otherwise drive in “favourable ways” to increase the fare meter.
    • In my experience, taxi drivers have been more rude than Uber drivers
    • Taxi drivers would occasionally not accept certain methods of payment upon trip completion (and some would even try to use this trick to scam their passengers and likely their companies or the government by not reporting fares).

    These all could’ve been solved by a regular taxi company, but I guess there was no incentive to make the product any better to the customers.