Re:Should Law Subsidize Driving?
by Mvandenbergh on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @06:17AM
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There's no way for them to build the kind of moat that would do that.
I was in a mid sized English industrial town a while ago where the local cab company had their own app. It wasn't quite as slick as uber but pretty close for a presumably whitelabeled app in a place like that. Ok, fine it's irritating to have to download a custom app for every city or town you might use a cab in but the reality is that the overwhelming volume of uber rides are in the city where the customer lives.
Re:Should Law Subsidize Driving?
by C1sc0cat on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @06:33AM
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Yes my local minicab company (in the UK) has a very slick system for handling bookings without an app - you can even book a cab from your last two locations without speaking to the operator.
I was in a mid sized English industrial town a while ago where the local cab company had their own app. It wasn't quite as slick as uber but pretty close for a presumably whitelabeled app in a place like that. Ok, fine it's irritating to have to download a custom app for every city or town you might use a cab in but the reality is that the overwhelming volume of uber rides are in the city where the customer lives.