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Traditional taxi services. "I don't know the name of it, but I'm in the big white building opposite the Night Market."
driver follows traffic-aware navigation the whole way
You haven't ridden in a taxi lately. I venture to say that a GPS of some description is standard in all taxis, including things like GMaps and Waze.
payment automatically handled.
Restriction to one form of payment. A Taxi can take cash, card, voucher, or can wait while you borrow money that you haven't got from somebody else.
I still don't see any 'Uber' advantage over a plain old taxi service.
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Traditional taxi services. "I don't know the name of it, but I'm in the big white building opposite the Night Market."
driver follows traffic-aware navigation the whole way
You haven't ridden in a taxi lately. I venture to say that a GPS of some description is standard in all taxis, including things like GMaps and Waze.
payment automatically handled.
Restriction to one form of payment. A Taxi can take cash, card, voucher, or can wait while you borrow money that you haven't got from somebody else.
I still don't see any 'Uber' advantage over a plain old taxi service.