That said, Taxi drivers have something Uber drivers don't- a union.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Taxi_Workers%27_Alliance
this post was submitted on 25 Jun 2024
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The taxi driver union is a joke, almost no driver is a member of it.
I don't know if you want your taxes so bad just keep using them. They smell like ass, huge vehicles that guzzle gas, have ads that won't stop playing, don't take credit/debit card, charge insane amounts, but if this is what you really fucking want go use it.
That doesn't sound like a good excuse for Uber to pay its drivers shit and not accept any responsibility for anything bad that might happen to them.
It isn't, they're both shit.
The taxi industry used strict regulations as a shield to hold local monopolies for decades which resulted in terrible downright scammy service, cash only for an unacceptable amount of time (and STILL is cash only in many places), 0 innovations, dirty ancient smelly barely running cars, a dispatch who would constantly say a car "was just around the corner" for 2 hours.
Even now they can't get their head out of their ass to make a proper app in 2024 that just tells you how much you're going to pay. Last time I tried out one of those taxi "apps" last year:
It wouldn't tell you where or how long till the taxi got to you
It would only give you an "estimated price range" (FUCK THAT)
It looked like it was from 2013 and they got a "nephew who knows computers" to make it
Fuck Uber, but at least when Uber tells me a price, that's the price that gets charged (excluding tip). At least I know where the Uber car is and when it's getting to me. At least the Uber driver can't screw around with routes and fares.
So really the choices for a taxi-like service are between a shit sandwich and a giant douche. Ugh, I'm just going to start renting cars.
As if the rental car industry isn't full of BS, too.