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by paxys 638 days ago
1. You pick the kind of car you want (sedan, SUV, luxury, with a child seat, pet friendly, EV).

2. The driver can choose the areas they want to drive in.

3. Cars can wait in an airport parking lot until they are needed and not crowd the terminal.

It is a perfectly efficient model.
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lxgr 638 days ago
> 1. You pick the kind of car you want (sedan, SUV, luxury, with a child seat, pet friendly, EV).

I'd be willing to pay extra to just get whatever car is right there. I really couldn't care less about most of these modes, and I doubt that the vast majority of other passengers do either (maybe with the exception of a child seat).

> It is a perfectly efficient model.

You've clearly never been to JFK then.

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paxys 638 days ago
JFK is a mess because it cannot accommodate the amount of traffic it gets. And you want to add thousands of Ubers standing at the gate waiting for passengers?

> I'd be willing to pay extra to just get whatever car is right there

So then just go to the taxi stand? Why even call an Uber?

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lxgr 638 days ago
What would be so hard about allowing a new Uber/Lyft in for each leaving one, physically or logically?

Uber/Lyft could allocate the "new car in" slots using whatever mechanism they currently use to match riders to drivers.

Having to find "my" car is just completely backwards in the airport scenario, at least at times of high usage.

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paxys 638 days ago
Because cars aren't allowed to idle at the terminal. They wait in a queue in the parking lot until they are matched, and then come pick you up. Yes this means you have to wait a couple minutes extra, but airports enforce this rule for a reason.
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lxgr 638 days ago
> airports enforce this rule for a reason.

What is that reason, and why are things handled so differently for taxis?

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paxys 638 days ago
Have you tried writing to your local airport authority and asking them the reason? Or are you automatically assuming that there's a grand conspiracy at play against you?

In most cases it's a simple capacity problem. Taxis have to be hailed physically, and there are already reserved taxi stands at every airport. There's no reason for that to change.

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