Comment preview: - An Uber driver can't tell you he only takes cash. To his benefit, he gets paid weekly by Uber rather than up to 90 days later by some Taxi companies. - You rate the Uber driver and the driver rates you. This very quickly and efficiently removes bad drive ....

Comment preview: I see taxi drivers as part of the problem not an innocent victim. From a financial point of view they are a victim because the Taxi companies do take advantage of them. But from a customer point of view, I really don't care. What I care about is the ride a ....

Comment preview: The real problem here is that UberPop drivers are non-professional drivers, they don't have to pay a taxi license and they often pay 0 taxes. Meaning they are able to drive prices way down making it impossible for taxi drivers to be competitive. Uberpop dr ....

Comment preview: I hope he ends up in jail and loses his taxi license. I know I'm a small minority in this. A small number of people involved in the Uber videos are going around recording Uber in their cars. This does not reflect me, many drivers, and the company nor the c ....

Comment preview: Went to school with John Stones. He was a year older than me. Was and is still a great guy. Was always great at football but never thought he'd be playing at the top level. His mum used to give me and some mates a lift back home from after school football. ....

Comment preview: Whilst I agree that there should be 'more regulations' done to the likes to Uber/Grabcar. I think right now Taxi companies need to step it up in terms of service. And I don't mean "service" in the sense of a friendly driver or a driver that knows how to go ....

Comment preview: I'm all for it. The current taxi system is absolutely broken. From a riders perspective, there is no system of accountability. I've had yellow cab drivers try and extort money from me, obviously take the long way around because they thought they could g ....

Comment preview: Seeing someone do a random act of kindness. When no one is looking, but you're watching and they can't see you! I was on the phone with a guy, he was in a taxi on the other end. I wasn't a biggest fan of this guy. I thought he was a douche, self-centered a ....

Comment preview: I hear this argument, but I think Uber has been a huge gain where I live. It used to be that trying to catch a cab on a friday or saturday night in San Francisco was futile. I've waited over an hour for taxis at peak times only to give up. Also, calling ....

Comment preview: Fuck taxi companies. Seriously, their services are outdated and terrible. There's no accountability for bad drivers. In Boston the cab drivers try to pull the whole "cash only my card reader is broken" to everyone they come across. If you try and call di ....

Comment preview: I'm sure this will get buried, but I've never had a story I could actually share on here so here goes! Last summer I was on vacation in England with my boyfriend and his family. We were in Topsham, to be exact, and on our way to meet some of his family at ....

Comment preview: Not quite as exciting as most, but certainly my favorite case of instant karma. First off the older generation of Koreans are extremely racist. They hate foreigners. There is a law in Korea that taxi drivers cannot refuse rides to foreigners, but there's n ....

Comment preview: Here's how the union leader described it: >Abed Madi, who leads the airport taxi driver unit for Unifor, the taxi driver union, said Tuesday that "this is what happens" when people are desperate. >**"The drivers were walking up towards the airport an ....

Comment preview: Had a taxi driver try to lock me in his taxi once... The fact that he was willing to try and lock me inside scared me like crazy so I agreed to give him one peck on the lips if he unlocked the door. I didn't want him to chase me if I didn't and felt super ....

Comment preview: I've talked to a couple of Uber drivers who used to drive cabs in Ottawa, and both said that their life was much better. One was making about the same amount of money, the other was making less but said he had so much more freedom to just drive when he lik ....

Comment preview: I awoke inside of a [evergreen bush](http://www.amazinghomesandproperties.com/_wdp_images/properties/imagefile/30/evergreen-bush.jpg), seeking shelter from a torrential rainstorm. It was 3:45am. I was far from sober. Clothed in a heavily muddied white shir ....

Comment preview: Nah, not the latter. I experienced something similar when speaking to strangers in Berlin, be it a taxi driver, bar staff, whomever. Whether it was in German or English they would always take 'how are you' as a personal question that was in a way invasive ....

Comment preview: Nothing, which I thought was kind of strange. Kind of related: About 6 months after the accident, I was the designated drive for a night of partying. As I was dropping my friends off at their hotel I saw the taxi driver. As I parked my car I pulled out my ....

Comment preview: Not a taxi driver but this one time I was riding in a taxi in NYC, with my then girlfriend now ex, and we started to talk about marriage and kids and the future. Now this all sounds normal right? The weird part was that the taxi driver talked about how wh ....

Comment preview: Lyft is basically a bad deal compared to being a cab driver unless you have a real beater car that's cheap to repair. Otherwise it is less risky in pretty much every way to drive a company car than it is to drive your own car, which makes taxi driving more ....

Comment preview: I was walking home from a pub in the city when I saw a car pull up next to a very, very drunk girl who was sitting in the gutter. Something just didn't feel right about the situation so I walked over just as she was getting into the car and asked her if sh ....

Comment preview: People don't seem to understand that there are reasons for everything in film. *Everything is intentional*. Don't think so? Doesn't matter. Think about the role that Gosling was playing. He was playing the "driver." We never learn what his actual name is. ....

Comment preview: Well Paul made the mistake of trying to give too much information to people who have no idea what he's talking about. When it comes to family (and taxi drivers) all they want is a job title. When asked what I do for a living, generally I don't give much mo ....

Comment preview: I've made regular trips to Qatar, and the country is WEIRD. The country is populated by 2/3rds immigrants. Not all of those are tertiary workers either, there is a huge, huge expat community of western qualified workers in construction. The strange thing i ....

Comment preview: I just sent a message. Posted here if anyone wants to modify it for their own use: Subject: Why I use Uber, and why it should stay in Ottawa. Message: I take Uber a lot because of vision problems which mean I can't drive. I am dependent on public transport ....