[ur-whale]

You quite clearly never lived in Europe.

Taxi apps before Uber were either non-existent (still are for most places) or unusable.

[briandear]

..in the case my my experience living in the south of France, taxis wouldn’t show up at all. That happened to me more frequently than they actually showed up.

[dang]

> You quite clearly never lived in Europe.

Can you please edit personal provocations like that out of your posts to HN? They add no information and are often wrong. The comment would be fine with just the second sentence.