Re:Uber Posts $5.2B Loss and Slowest Ever Growth Rate
by Marsymars on Thursday August 08, 2019 @08:04PM
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Options differ based on location - at my local airport Car2Go is notably more cost effective than Uber, about half the price. (You do have to shuttle to/from the parking, but I've taken it dozens of times without issue.) Limos (or limo company sedans, if you're solo) are also surprisingly affordable - they operate on a flat rate to/from the airport, which is only $10 more than a typical taxi ride from my house.
Re:Uber Posts $5.2B Loss and Slowest Ever Growth Rate
by evilolive on Friday August 09, 2019 @02:14AM
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Ideally your city would have a reliable public transit system to its airport.. I always take Bart to SFO, it's a lot more dependable than any car / shuttle service which is subject to traffic.
You will note that I picked a specific use case: going to the airport.
For anyone who flies (and lots of people fly for one off events--so you aren't automatically "well-off" just because you have a plane ticket), transportation to the airport is particularly painful because you have a fixed time deadline.
Most of the options really suck--ridesharing is actually the most cost effective of the bunch.
If you take your own car, you have expensive parking and get the joy of the shuttle from long-term parking (often longer than a ridesharing ride). If you order a shuttle, it will be slow and have multiple people and tends not to be well time controlled. If you call a taxi, it may not show up as you don't have tracking or the ability to penalize them. Limos work well but are ferociously expensive if you can't split the cost.