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Re:Uber Posts $5.2B Loss and Slowest Ever Growth Rate by Zach_the_Lizard on Thursday August 08, 2019 @07:51PM (#20650112)
This is possible in the US as well, but depending on where you live this might take a long time, be expensive, or both. Plus, you get no sense of where the cab is. And sometimes cab drivers refuse to go to your neighborhood.

Uber solves that.

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Re:Uber Posts $5.2B Loss and Slowest Ever Growth Rate by phreeza on Friday August 09, 2019 @01:57AM (#20651673)
Does Uber really solve the bad neighborhood problem?
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Re:Uber Posts $5.2B Loss and Slowest Ever Growth Rate by Zach_the_Lizard on Friday August 09, 2019 @07:18AM (#20653227)
Maybe not fully, but cabs refused to go to good neighborhoods, let alone bad ones.

I live in Queens in a great neighborhood and cabs have "forgot" how to get here more than once. They don't like it because they have a lower chance of a return fare.

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