Uber?

Quote: terapined

I think you are making it up
ROTFL
Copying and pasting from who knows where is not proof
LOL

I think you are being unfair. I believe Bob is using Uber despite its flaws because the price point makes up for those flaws. Conceptually, I prefer a regulated inspected cabbie as opposed to an Uber driver, but Uber is less than 1/2 what a cabbie costs here.

As many negatives as Bob points out, I bet the number of DUI lives saved because of Uber outweighs all of the negatives combined.

An interesting question on safety..... Someone suggested it is unsafe getting in an Uber car due to the possibility of being assaulted/robbed/raped by the driver. I say since there is an internet record of being picked up by a car and driver that is registered and known, it is safer than being picked up by a random cabbie on the street.

Quote: SOOPOO

I think you are being unfair. I believe Bob is using Uber despite its flaws because the price point makes up for those flaws. Conceptually, I prefer a regulated inspected cabbie as opposed to an Uber driver, but Uber is less than 1/2 what a cabbie costs here.

As many negatives as Bob points out, I bet the number of DUI lives saved because of Uber outweighs all of the negatives combined.

An interesting question on safety..... Someone suggested it is unsafe getting in an Uber car due to the possibility of being assaulted/robbed/raped by the driver. I say since there is an internet record of being picked up by a car and driver that is registered and known, it is safer than being picked up by a random cabbie on the street.

Good points.
Taxicabs often do not like responding to a bartender's call for a taxi. Often the patron has changed his mind and is still drinking. With Uber there is a record of patron's identity.

As to general safety, yes... I would think an electronic trail is an advantage but mainly its time and cost competitive. Some cabs are rolling wrecks anyway, so why not go with an owner-owned Uber driver? Always exceptions though, one NYC cab was a Mercedes Benz. Owned by the same man who bought an off broadway theater whose first show ran fourteen years. He also owned a gondola in Venice, Italy despite being warned an Italian court would look unfavorably on an American millionaire.

Quote: Fleastiff

Taxicabs often do not like responding to a bartender's call for a taxi.

Neither do Uber drivers. The bar customers
often don't go very far, they sometimes
puke in the car or piss their pants, and are
often verbally abusive.

Quote: Evenbob

Neither do Uber drivers. The bar customers
often don't go very far, they sometimes
puke in the car or piss their pants, and are
often verbally abusive.

But they are good, repeat customers. No matter how bad they find the cars or drivers, they will keep dialing up the app.

Quote: AZDuffman

But they are good, repeat customers. No matter how bad they find the cars or drivers, they will keep dialing up the app.

I keep calling them, you can't beat a
cheap ride. Even if some of the cars
are crap and the drivers don't know
how to back up. Literally. I had a guy
last week that couldn't back up his
own car, he did it like it had a trailer.
He would go back 4 feet and be off course
and pull ahead 2 feet and kept doing that
till he was out of the driveway. It was
amazing.

Quote: Evenbob

I keep calling them, you can't beat a
cheap ride. Even if some of the cars
are crap and the drivers don't know
how to back up. Literally. I had a guy
last week that couldn't back up his
own car, he did it like it had a trailer.
He would go back 4 feet and be off course
and pull ahead 2 feet and kept doing that
till he was out of the driveway. It was
amazing.

The lack of experienced drivers in this country is appalling. (sarcasm)

Quote: Evenbob

Neither do Uber drivers. The bar customers often don't go very far, they sometimes puke in the car or piss their pants, and are often verbally abusive.

Well, who isn't?

This weekend I rented a 2017 Nissan Altima,
black. A really nice car, I was impressed. So
what Uber picks me up at the airport? A
black 2017 Altima, what are the odds.

The lady driver told me where they wait
for rides at Wendy's by the airport, the
men drivers do nothing but complain
about the passengers. Too many short
rides, why do they call if they're only
going 2 miles. LOL! What do they think
cab driving is, all $40 fares? It's 90% short
runs, that's who calls cabs and that's a
lot of Uber riders too. We don't need a
ride to Timbuktu, we need to go to the
store or the doctors or work or the local
bar. Uber drivers are spoiled prima donnas,
they wouldn't last a week driving a taxi.

Got a woman driver Fri, and old guy
in his 70's today. They say the same
as other drivers, short runs are driving
them nuts. People going less than 2
miles. I try and explain it's the nature
of the taxi business, 80% are short runs.

They don't want to hear it, I'm here to
make money, blah blah. Then you're
in the wrong biz. You make money in
a taxi by DRIVING, by constantly moving.
They don't get it, they want every rider
to go $30 worth. With this many prima
donnas out there, the driver turn over
rate must be huge.

I took a Lyft from Mandalay Bay Casino to the airport.
Close enough to walk, but no way to do it.