| > No money changes hands, so safer for drivers. All their taxis do card payments, and have done card payments for decades before Uber. > No payment is made in the vehicle, so faster exit times. They didn't have that option when they launched the app with GPS booking, but they added it later. It now works just like Uber, you have cards on your profile, it charges your chosen card after the trip. > Uber records all trips, so easier to work out costs to expense. Of course they can email you your receipts if you want. > Uber uses any credit card, so your boss can pay for your ride without the need for separate expensing. So does this taxi app. Companies can also have accounts with the taxi company, so if it's a work trip you just use the company account that you've already entered into the app. > Driver and passenger are tracked, so there it is easy to find who did what. There are a lot of rape charges and cases against Cabbies. There are not a lot of rape charges and cases against cabbies in Stockholm, at all, so that's not a problem to solve. > Rating - I've been in a LOT of awful, awful cabs. Taxis in SF are godawful compared to taxis in Stockholm, so yeah, if you're used to the shitty cabs of SF, Uber is a step up. If you're used to pretty much every single taxi being a Mercedes like in Stockholm, Random Dude's Toyota is a step down. > Drivers can work 1 hour and make some money. Try that with any other job. That doesn't affect me as a customer, really. Also, when I get in a taxi in Stockholm I know I'm getting a properly licensed and insured ride, not just some gung-ho gig-economy hopeful who is driving his Toyota an hour a week. Like I said, I understand that Uber was a step-up for the SF taxi market, but there are plenty of markets where it isn't, and where it's much-hyped technological invention just isn't very hard to replicate for local competition. |