Re:The End of the Taxi Era
by dclowd9901 on Saturday January 09, 2016 @11:00AM
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On that point it's exceptionally odd to me that uber doesn't offer scheduled pickup.
Scheduled car services are a pretty different business from Uber. When I schedule a ride to the airport, I'm paying a premium to have a highly reliable on-time pickup. And, coming home, I'm paying for a highly reliable pickup where I expect my service to do their darndest to work around flight and flight schedule changes. (There's also basically no Uber out where I live.)
The car service is actually cheaper than Uber for me - I don't do it on the way back because there's reliably 100 Ubers hovering around JFK.
> You can't schedule an Uber
Really? That's a surprise. I use Gett mostly, and you certainly can schedule it — so I don't see why Uber couldn't implement it either.
They seem to believe that scheduling a future ride goes against their entire business model. I completely disagree (see comment in link):
https://www.quora.com/Why-doesnt-Uber-allow-customers-to-pre...
Re:The End of the Taxi Era
by icebraining on Saturday January 09, 2016 @01:16PM
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You can't schedule an Uber, and just hoping that one will be available at the time I need one (or else I miss my flight) is scary.