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I am not sure if uber has the umlauts.

While I am not great supporter of the taxi industry, I do think that you should not be too hard on the taxi drivers for not picking you up although I do understand your personal frustration. I am not sure how many uber drivers would be happy to pick up random people without knowing they had been pre-screened.

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Yeah, I stopped caring about how taxi drivers treat me. Ironically, it is because I can use uber now :)

As a good passenger you want a way of being able to tell the driver this. Uber lets you in effect do this, but there is nothing stopping the taxi industry copying the same process. If they did they would give uber a real run for its money.

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