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Re:The day Steve Jobs dissed me in a keynote (2010) by tashoecraft on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @11:18AM (#30616194)
This just isn't true. There's still tons of yellow cabs in NYC. And you know what had the most terrible taxi experience, yellow cabs. I've never been unable to pay via card in an uber/lyft. I've never had my driver pull the emergency brake and tell me his car is broken because I said I lived in Brooklyn and they didn't want to drive there in a uber/lyft. I never had the AC be not working or refused to be used in an uber/lyft.

And yet all of those things happened in yellow cabs and much more. Yellow cabs are truly terrible experience. And they were never far cheaper.

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Re:The day Steve Jobs dissed me in a keynote (2010) by stemlord on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @11:38AM (#30616515)
They are far cheaper right now. I promise you. It's also been this way for a while. And yes, yellow cabs still exist, but you will not see a sea of yellow down Broadway like has historically been the case. Even before covid.
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Re:The day Steve Jobs dissed me in a keynote (2010) by smachiz on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @01:33PM (#30618252)
My recent survey of Uber/Lyft cars is they're absolutely every bit as shitty as some of the Yellows out there.

No cabby objects to going to Brooklyn and hasn't for almost 10 years.

Uber/Lyfts at JFK constantly call and try to ask where I'm going before they pick me up.

The Curb app is fine.

The problem is not the medallions but the centralization of medallions. Owner/operators are usually much better than the dude renting the cab and medallion from some shady ass company.

The TLC should do more to fix the cabs - and we should support them fixing cabs and owner/operators at the expense of Uber/Lyft. The competition is good, but Uber/Lyft are no better than the medallion squatters.

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Re:The day Steve Jobs dissed me in a keynote (2010) by silisili on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @02:23PM (#30618861)
> And they were never far cheaper.

When Uber started, this was true. Uber has gotten, pardon the pun, uber expensive in most places I go.

I now take a cab from the airport because a) it's easier, and b) it's cheaper. I'm not sure I'd say 'far cheaper', but that probably depends on locales.

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