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Uber faces £250m London black cab drivers legal case - BBC News (www.bbc.co.uk)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've always felt that the black cabs were just full of sour grapes since Uber eats into their profits. Black cabs have always been overpriced.

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[–] breadsmasher 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Uber should be held accountable for whatever breach of licence terms or regulations, but my god, fuck black cabbie drivers. Well, most “traditional” taxi drivers in the UK before Uber. Uber is also a terrible company but they at least forced other taxi cabs to catch up.

For example -

Calling for a cab and it never arriving
Asking whether I can pay by card, but then the driver demanding cash instead. Even with a “we accept card” on their door.
And then when paying by cash they conveniently never have quite enough change
Going on much longer routes than required
Parking well outside of taxi ranks and causing traffic around busy areas (like the train station)
Being insanely expensive
Driving like assholes on the road (as does uber drivers, but reporting is significantly easier)
Being rude in general

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Preach!