Uber secures right to continue operating in London

Re:Uber secures right to continue operating in London by twic on Monday September 28, 2020 @08:06AM (#24615706)

Baffled to see Uber compared to black cabs. It's a minicab firm. It's vastly more convenient than the legacy minicab firms, because of the app, but the actual service is identical.

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Re:Uber secures right to continue operating in London by wastedhours on Monday September 28, 2020 @08:28AM (#24615879)

But convenience and ubiquity was the black cab's selling points, especially since the advent of live updating traffic-aware GPS made storing The Knowledge in your head an occasionally useful party trick.

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Re:Uber secures right to continue operating in London by C1sc0cat on Monday September 28, 2020 @12:21PM (#24618313)

Is it? certainly in my small county town 60 miles from London why do I need an app it all works on SMS.

I call the taxi company its automated asks me to push 1 or 2 for the last two trips or 0 for an operator.

I tell the operator where I want to go and my name and I get a sms message with a link to a map and another one when it has arrived.

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