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Re:Uber Is Taking Millions of Manhattan Rides Away from Taxis by dominotw on Wednesday October 14, 2015 @03:32PM (#10388851)
In Chicago

4. They pretend that ccard machines are not working. Demand cash.

5. Cars are so old that someone of them have no Air conditioning.

6. Drivers often have BO and are often chewing gutka(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutka)

7. Rude. This needs to be said again.

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Re:Uber Is Taking Millions of Manhattan Rides Away from Taxis by pavel_lishin on Wednesday October 14, 2015 @03:42PM (#10388911)
In New York, I believe that if a card reader is broken, a taxi driver has to inform you of this before you get in the car.

I mean, it's obviously a scam, so most of the time they don't, and they're not actually broken, but at least there's something you can yell back at him when you arrive and he demands cash.

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Re:Uber Is Taking Millions of Manhattan Rides Away from Taxis by emidln on Wednesday October 14, 2015 @03:50PM (#10388965)
Number 4 results in free rides if they tell you after the fact. It's law in Chicago that they must accept credit cards.
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