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I was on work travel last week. No Uber from the airport - three cancelations then I caught a Lyft. It was over $500 for a 50 mi ride to a neighboring city which I was mostly looking at out of curiosity. My friend was recently held up (well, attempted) by an Uber driver in Nashville who had canceled last second so he could not even find who the driver was to file a complaint.

It seems like the former gap in user experience between Uber and taxis has largely vanished. This may partly be reflective of the great resignation as well: a lot of people who are working have still just given up.

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I just came back from a family vacation. I looked at getting an Uber or Lyft from airport home. They were all like a twenty minutes wait and 50 bucks. We took a cab that was already there and it came in at about 40 bucks.

Me too. Took a cab from JFK to NJ for $85. $120 for Lyft $140 for Uber. Prices eventually came down to $105 and $115 by the time I took the cab, but still.

Uber has raised their rates significantly I've noticed in the last year or so to where it's no longer feasible to take as alternative or daily transport.

Same in Montreal July 1st. Wanted a ride from airport, Uber quoted $70. I got a cab and it was $50 on the meter (all prices in CAD).

If you spent $500 for a 50 minute ride, that means you should have rented a car.

this reads like recency bias, discounting how terrible and experience hailing a cab used to be

Counter point:

I just got rejected for a short ride from a cab at the airport in nyc. Dude was very angry I was only going a few miles. Hopped out, ordered a Lyft, got a great ride from a dude with a wife and kids.

It's illegal for a taxi at NYC to reject a fare to any part of NYC. He might huff and puff if you're going out of his way, but he has to take you. You shouldn't have gotten out.

Sounds like a great idea to force someone who doesn't want to take you somewhere to take you somewhere. I'm not letting someone make me an asshole. I'd rather use the app.

u mean a job?

I ran out of that cab when he got angry. Zero chance I stay and it’s great to have the competition of Lyft and uber

I screenshot every time a driver accepts the ride, for the almost inevitable dispute later.

How is it that you need the screenshot? Doesn’t the app/backend keep records of matches?

If you want to dispute the cancellation fee Uber occasionally hits you with when the driver cancels, it helps to know the driver's name, which you can't find in the app after he cancels.

In the case of the carjacking, there are records for this driver.

Though on that note, I had a driver acting sketchy in Nashville last week exhibiting similar behavior though no one attempted a mugging. I wonder…

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