[keiferski]

Again: if you tried to get a taxi prior to Uber existing, it was a nightmare and not at all reliable. You called the taxi company and if they felt like sending someone, they would. Often they'd say, "Sure, we'll send someone in 2 hours," and the driver never showed up. More than once I was stranded somewhere because of an unreliable taxi company.

This experience doesn't exist anymore, because Uber/Lyft/ridesharing apps out competed useless taxi companies.

People who needed to get taxis certainly didn't always get taxis.

[BLenkomo]

I'm not sure where you made this experience though.

But at least here most cities i'm aware of, do not offer uber. But Taxis.

Big cities sure they have uber.

I also agree though, i don't like that uber is disrupting existing markets just because but taxis are shitty. Still i haven't seen an uber doing dialisis drive in my hometown, its taxis not ubers.