Minneapolis just called Uber’s bluff — other cities must follow their lead
thehill.com
This month, a group of mostly Black and immigrant Uber and Lyft drivers in Minneapolis won their fight for a minimum pay rate when the Minneapolis City Council refused to be bullied by the rideshare corporations.
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I tried taking a taxi about a year ago. There was one right there and I figured, might as well give it a try, won't have to wait. It was over twice as much as a ride share. The price difference isn't even close, they'd have to raise prices a ridiculous amount before I'd take a taxi again. Fuck not knowing how much a trip is going to cost ahead of time.
I've had too many bad experiences with the "cash only", "I'm not going that way".
I put my friend in a cab in London who was too drunk. I prepaid the cabbie and then he woke my friend up after he took him back and shook him down for cash.
Yeah, no thanks to cabbies.
I was kinda mad at Uber in 2019 (I can't remember what reason it was... They have so many reasons) and needed a ride share from the airport to a conference. The bus runs every two hours on weekends apparently, a dirty ass taxi said he can take me for $15 each, if he can get three more people. So we waited and finally got four people.
The vehicle was a mess, there was coke cans on the floor, he drove like a complete asshole, and he was incredibly rude.
Taxis were always shit before Uber. But Looks like taxis are still shit.
I never take rideshare from the airport anymore. It’s nearly the same cost to take a taxi, without the wait.
Their payment systems suck though. I was in one where the default tip started at 35% and was a few steps to avoid.
It depends on where you are, but I've never saved money taking a taxi over ride share from the airport, but I've had it cost way more plenty of time. It being the same cost has been the best case scenario for me.
Depending on where you are, you don't have the option to take a ride share. It might have changed, but a few years ago when my wife and I flew into Orlando they had a ban on pickups from the airport.
That being said, we took a hotel shuttle and ordered the ride share from there because fuck taxis.
Even then, many taxi companies have apps now. They aren't trying to pay extra for dispatchers and stuff.
I've tried those apps and they're some of the shittiest apps I've ever used
Curb is the only app that ever double charged me, multiple times. I had to dispute the charges with the credit card company. It took like 3-6 months to be completely done with it. They literally kept charging me every month.
Ah yes, the taxi "Bare minimum effort" apps. Seriously, most of them look like they walked right out of the 2010 era of apps. I would say that they just asked their "techy teen nephew that knows apps" to make it, but that would be an insult to techy teen nephews everywhere.
I tried an app last year just to see how things are, the book a cab button just opened my fucking dialer with a pre filled number. In 2023.
The best cab app I ever saw still looked like 2016 (but better than the others stuck in 2009-2010 I'll give them that) but that one would only give me an "estimated ride range" like fuck that. One of the best pros to a ride share app is that the price it tells you in app is the price you're getting charged (excluded driver tip) leaving very little room for the driver to introduce shenanigans, like the classic cabbie trick of "oh this guys definitely isn't local so I'll take the LONG way around"
That's hilarious. Yeah they can do better.
Where do you live?
This particular cab was in Sweden
I only ask because where I live (Silicon Valley) taxis have become very competitive with rideshare. I doubt it's true all the time, but I've had great prices leaving concerts in San Francisco.
Also! scheduling an Uber for pickup is absurdly expensive. I called a cab compay and they were a quarter of the price. Pro tip?
The taxis here are half the price of a ride share. Most large city taxi companies have an app now that will give you the price of the trip.