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Re:Uber: A Feisty Start-Up Is Met With Regulatory Snarl by yummyfajitas on Monday December 03, 2012 @07:20AM (#4865055)
One of those dimensions may be service availability to low income neighborhoods. Cabs are supposed to take fares anywhere.

Go try and find a cab in Manhattan above 125th st. Drivers already don't go to lower income neighborhoods.

(Disclaimer: I haven't lived above 125th st in a few years. Maybe enough yuppies have moved in for cabbies to go up that far.)

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Re:Uber: A Feisty Start-Up Is Met With Regulatory Snarl by untog on Monday December 03, 2012 @09:33AM (#4865498)
Drivers already don't go to lower income neighborhoods.

And most people in lower income neighbourhoods can't afford Uber. Let's not make them out as some liberating force for the poor, now.

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Re:Uber: A Feisty Start-Up Is Met With Regulatory Snarl by yummyfajitas on Monday December 03, 2012 @11:34AM (#4866197)
I'm simply pointing out that there is no "universal service" in the taxi world now. I'm not claiming that Uber will create such a service.
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