[freejazz]

>You are rewriting history here. Most NYers have a story about a cab that either tried to take them for a ride and take a shitty route

I've had Uber try to go through the Throggs Neck Bridge, over to the Triboro in order to take me to LIC from eastern Queens. Of course the Uber driver, who only spoke Chinese had no way of understanding why this was incredibly and obviously stupid.

[rangestransform]

I've gotten refunds from uber when the driver got comically lost and i reported, try that with a medallion taxi

lyft even shows a notification on the passenger's phone now when the driver deviates from the planned route

[freejazz]

That would've never happened with a medallion in the first place, and you don't seem to gather that it was the planned route.

[rangestransform]

medallion taxi drivers did it maliciously, not unintentionally

[freejazz]

Yeah, maybe to people from out of town. I didn't say cabs were perfect, but people are acting like Uber is beyond reproach and I don't think it is and I find taxis incredibly convenient and are almost always a better deal, and I lament how few of them there are now which is due entirely to Uber. The experience in an uber is not really that much better, people used them because they were much cheaper.