Uber kicks total butt against taxis, at least in New York City.
True but is there a vetting process? Could a sex offender be a Uber driver?
The Detroit Bus Company is somewhat similar and competes successfully with the taxpayer funded service.
Its a bit more expensive but people are willing to pay more for far superior service. You can call them like a taxi and they’ll pick you up where you are and they’ll drop you off at the door of where you’re going.
When tens of millions of parents woth family responsibilities are out of work because of Obamanomics we should expect to see an explosion of entrepreneurship. This will herald a profound shift in the economic foundation of the country with small business forcing big business to retrench.
How does it work?
Are the free lancers offering rides for a fee as they go to work or do they offer rides all day as a business?
Are they in effect sharing the expense of their daily commute or re they in the business of transporting for hire?
Now why on earth would someone want to ride with a non muslim whose bathed recently when they could expand their cultural horizons?
It’s a mystery alright.
Glad you had a good experience with them, but I’ve not heard a lot that’s positive.
Here in Albuquerque someone that was an Uber drive had the outside mirror broken off his car door and the same passenger puked all over the back seat. He gets nothing for the damage unless he takes the passenger to court. For what, a $40 fare?
In Denver, I read that a concert goer took an Uber car to a concert at Red Rocks and found out upon arrival that it was over $200! Uber said when there’s a big event on and vehicles are in short supply, there’s a multiplication factor that gets entered into the cost. The passenger said they knew nothing about it.
Reviews on Yelp for the Denver area are pretty bad. http://www.yelp.com/biz/uber-denver-3