[khuey]

You realize the only reason they've cleaned up their act is because Uber et al. are eating their lunch, right?

[gutnor]

Well so ? That how competition works. If the taxi are getting better than Uber, not using because they used to be crap is the same position than people not using Uber because they are not the good old taxi.

[blader]

Right, that's the point of the article the OP posted that I'm responding to.