Taxis are a licensed, bonded, insured business with professional drivers.
Uber is a bunch of randos picking you up, fueled by a backend system built by frat bros with money to throw at it and make it cheaper until the taxis go away, then lift the prices until juuuust before you stop using their service.
A normal taxi owns a building, the vehicles, has someone that looks after them, insurance on all of the above and pays benefit to their drivers, they also have a limit of where they can take fares of where they can drive and be worth it,
Uber has little to none of that and puts the risk mostly on the people “working” for them
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insurance, taxes, maintenance, storage, licensing and other overhead paid by the company and not individual drivers.
Taxis are a licensed, bonded, insured business with professional drivers.
Uber is a bunch of randos picking you up, fueled by a backend system built by frat bros with money to throw at it and make it cheaper until the taxis go away, then lift the prices until juuuust before you stop using their service.
A normal taxi owns a building, the vehicles, has someone that looks after them, insurance on all of the above and pays benefit to their drivers, they also have a limit of where they can take fares of where they can drive and be worth it,
Uber has little to none of that and puts the risk mostly on the people “working” for them
This is not true anymore. I switched to taxis about a year ago. For my area taxi is half price of an Uber
Uber pays 30¢/mile, which means the driver is losing 37¢/mile just driving the car. Taxi drivers actually make enough money to live on.
Uber doesn’t have to pay for cars, for repairs, for fuel, etc. The drivers cover all it, and the pay may or may not cover it.
In my area, in Norway, Uber and regular taxis are about the same price.
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Where? Because this isn’t necessarily true in every city