If you have company flying into Atlanta for the holidays, they may have a hard time getting a ride to your place.

  • N-E-N@lemmy.ca
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    11 months ago

    I’m not sure id just hire some random guy without some middleman providing me some kind of safe guard for being scammed

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      11 months ago

      The middle man is a millionaire who modified the law to cheat customers like you out of hundreds of dollars in the name of profit.

      VS

      Some guy who wants to buy food.

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        11 months ago

        Ideologically, I agree.

        But when I am putting a friend in the car to get them home after a night out or have too much luggage to keep it in the back seat? Liability, even with limits, goes a long way

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          11 months ago

          I agree with you, but that isn’t worth that ungodly amount of money.

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            11 months ago

            I mean, avoiding DUI and the hassle of a DD is often worth even the surcharge price. Same with not getting your car fucked up at an event.

            I try to avoid surge pricing times. But there is very much a reason people pay it

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              11 months ago

              the reason being they are pretty much an oligopoly now, so people have no choice but to pay up

              drivers are getting shafted, customers are getting shafted, Uber’s shareholders are getting richer.

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      11 months ago

      And how precisely does having an app any rando can download provide any safe guards? I can assure you their background checks are pure PR. These drivers are not employees, according to the company. What do you think happens when a driver assaults or robs someone? What makes you think that criminals wouldn’t just steal a phone from a driver and use that to get victims? The app provides no security other than theater.

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          11 months ago

          Maybe. Every time I used a taxi it was a random person I gave money when I arrived at the destination.

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            11 months ago

            There’s still a central dispatching service the vast, vast majority of the time.

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                  11 months ago

                  Medallions specially are used in several large US cities. Transferable licenses are used in a great many other places. Non-transferable licenses in almost all of the rest of the world. Sanctioned taxis are highly regulated even in places that are otherwise quite dangerous.

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            11 months ago

            A legal taxi driver, or a clandestine one?

            I understand an argument against middlemen, but your argument ain’t cutting it.