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>At least in Europe there were apps to call a taxi

Where?

In France the taxis never accepted debit cards (= tax evasion), and generally provided piss-poor service. They've stepped their game up massively since Uber arrived.

In the UK I never saw a taxi app that wasn't an utter heap of garbage.

Sweeping generalizations about EU countries are almost always wrong or meaningless.

[rusk]

> In the UK I never saw a taxi app that wasn't an utter heap of garbage.

Hold on now. Hailo was amazing. Pity they broke themselves trying to take on the big apple.

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Really? On par with Uber? Because that's the goalpost that's been set, here.

Hailo was often fully booked when I tried using it, and I had several previous-day reservations evaporate into thin air. It wasn't (as) reliable.

London taxis have always been slightly better than the FR/ES/BG/IT taxis I've taken, but not that much better. And the apps have either gone bust, not worked, or both.

[rusk]

Yeah Hailo worked flawlessly for me here in Dublin. Right up until they started to flail commercially.