Uber Is Taking Millions of Manhattan Rides Away from Taxis
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Uber Is Taking Millions of Manhattan Rides Away from Taxis
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#2What I find interesting is that Uber doesn't seem to be having an effect on private car use.
From the article, in the busiest part of New York, "Uber gained 3.10 million pickups, while taxis lost 3.09 million."
I read this to say that almost every Uber ride would have been a taxi ride if Uber did not exist. It doesn't seem to be replacing private car use at all. If it were, we'd see Uber rides increasing faster than taxis ride are decreasing.
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#3I think the word "earning" is what the author meant.
Re: Uber Is Taking Millions of Manhattan Rides Away from Taxis
#4What I find interesting is that Uber doesn't seem to be having an effect on private car use. From the article, in the busiest part of New York, "Uber gained 3.10 million pickups, while taxis lost 3.09 million." I read this to say that almost every Uber ride would have been a taxi ride if Uber did not exist. It doesn't seem to be replacing private car use at all. If it were, we'd see Uber rides increasing faster than…
that's because taxis are already really good relative to private car ownership in new york city. owning a car is a miserable experience and taking a taxi was already not that bad
Re: Uber Is Taking Millions of Manhattan Rides Away from Taxis
#5What I find interesting is that Uber doesn't seem to be having an effect on private car use. From the article, in the busiest part of New York, "Uber gained 3.10 million pickups, while taxis lost 3.09 million." I read this to say that almost every Uber ride would have been a taxi ride if Uber did not exist. It doesn't seem to be replacing private car use at all. If it were, we'd see Uber rides increasing faster than…
I think the issue is that private car use is vastly dwarfed by the numbers for taxis so you would need an analysis of the private car use as well.
Private car usage could be accounted for in the 100,000 more uber has than taxis there.
Re: Uber Is Taking Millions of Manhattan Rides Away from Taxis
#6What I find interesting is that Uber doesn't seem to be having an effect on private car use. From the article, in the busiest part of New York, "Uber gained 3.10 million pickups, while taxis lost 3.09 million." I read this to say that almost every Uber ride would have been a taxi ride if Uber did not exist. It doesn't seem to be replacing private car use at all. If it were, we'd see Uber rides increasing faster than…
how much private car usage is there, actually, in Manhattan?
Re: Uber Is Taking Millions of Manhattan Rides Away from Taxis
#7I think the word "earning" is what the author meant.
Yes, why "taking"? What Uber is doing is obviously working.
Pre-Uber days, getting a cab in NY was painful. You can't call them to come pick you up. More often than not, the cabbie will complain about taking a credit card or just say the machine is broken. Rides TO the airport are a mixed bag of using the fixed fare vs the cabbie encouraging you to go off of it.
Are there are legitimate complaints about Uber that don't come from the standpoint of defending the incumbent cab industry? I just don't get the constant hate they receive.
Re: Uber Is Taking Millions of Manhattan Rides Away from Taxis
#8What I find interesting is that Uber doesn't seem to be having an effect on private car use. From the article, in the busiest part of New York, "Uber gained 3.10 million pickups, while taxis lost 3.09 million." I read this to say that almost every Uber ride would have been a taxi ride if Uber did not exist. It doesn't seem to be replacing private car use at all. If it were, we'd see Uber rides increasing faster than…
You are forgetting to account for the other ride sharing services, which most likely have gained more than 10,000 pickups as a whole.
Re: Uber Is Taking Millions of Manhattan Rides Away from Taxis
#9What I find interesting is that Uber doesn't seem to be having an effect on private car use. From the article, in the busiest part of New York, "Uber gained 3.10 million pickups, while taxis lost 3.09 million." I read this to say that almost every Uber ride would have been a taxi ride if Uber did not exist. It doesn't seem to be replacing private car use at all. If it were, we'd see Uber rides increasing faster than…
I don't really find that especially surprising but I wouldn't necessarily generalize it beyond Manhattan. Manhattan had an imperfect but certainly widely used taxi system--culture even--before Uber came along. The Uber experience may well be preferable to the taxi experience but the difference is probably not such that a lot of people who were driving private cars to avoid cabs now suddenly stop driving. And a lot of people who live in Manhattan don't even own cars in any case.
I would have expected some impact on traditional black car service but that may be such a small slice of the total that it doesn't show up in the numbers.
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#10Just like the movie industry it hasn't occurred to taxi companies to build their own app to make it easy for people to get a ride through their service. With a little forethought the taxi companies could have snuffed out Uber before they picked up steam, but they ran to their paid for government officials and lawyers instead.