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by michaelmrose 2131 days ago
Taxis everywhere are expensive due to constricted supply and are often unreliable.

Man I could tell some stories about that.

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Rideshares have their own cost and reliability problems for riders.

No one is saying taxi services are fine as-is, in addition to rideshare ride being artificially cheap thanks to VC money subsidizing costs, they did offer real user experience improvements. But the rideshare services have also shirked a lot of duties and created new externalized costs for others to bear.