| >With Hart Taxis you get: - Smart drivers who have been working a maximum of 12 hours in a single shift and a maximum of 6 shifts per week. - Smart, washed and valeted cars - Road legal vehicles with full service history. - Vehicle tracking services so you can see where your driver is from when they accept your job to when they arrive. - Text information detailing the make, colour and registration of the vehicle that will be picking you up. - Meet and greet service at the airport where we monitor your incoming flight and only send the driver at the appropriate time. - Bottled water on arrival at our airport jobs. - Automated booking via our Oliviar booking system with the industry’s leading booking and despatch software - Full E-receipt provided on completion of job, if required. If I understand things correctly, then the only difference between this and Uber/Lyft is primarily item 1 (although I'm not sure why it matters that the driver is "smart"). Items 2 and the bottled water could probably be gotten through Uber Black which also costs more. So it seems one pays a premium to help certain drivers earn a living wage, and support an ethical company; more cynically, to not feel like one is participating in Uber-style exploitation. I imagine that some in the effective altruism community[1] would consider this and other sorts of ethical consumption to be "ineffective", and would recommend people just donate the price difference to needier people, or to an organization better equipped to create structural change. But I'm not an effective altruist so I may be misrepresenting that perspective. [1] https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Making-a-difference/Change-A... |