Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by Semaphor 1779 days ago
It depends on where you are. Germany shut their attempts at ignoring all laws down quite quickly, their Uber Black service is just like any other cab, just with an app instead of a phone call.

They managed to drag our cab companies into the 21st century without even being active almost anywhere, so thanks for that ;)

But in South Africa? Taxis are extremely expensive cars that often look as if they’d fall apart any moment. Uber was/is cheaper, but I’d have taken them even otherwise. Most certainly a premium service.