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Which locations does this website have actual data for? Just tried two places in San Francisco and it said it had no data. Is this an actual site or just a one pager looking for interest?
What two places did you try? It works for me.
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> At the end of the day, they are all taxi services in my book. Unless you live in New York, and are trying to get from Manhattan to one of the outer boroughs, in which case getting a yellow cab is a total crapshoot.
It shouldn't matter one bit. They're legally obligated to take you anywhere in the five boroughs. Just get in before telling them your destination. If they give you flak (and you feel like fighting them), just take note of their medallion # and state clearly that you will report them if they fail to fulfill their obligation.
It shouldn't matter, but it does.
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Which is kind of a funny way for Uber to say "we don't do tipping." I mean, I guess you could say that my salary "includes a tip," and that it's really 20% lower but then there's a 20% tip on top of that, but obviously I wouldn't actually say that. Uber says that their fare "includes a tip" because people are used to tipping cabbies. But tips are only tips when they are optional amounts that customers can vary the si…
I don't know where you are from, but North America tipping is not optional in certain situations. A waitress in a restaurant does not get payed a salary, but lives solely from tips. I don't know if the same is true for taxi drivers (who are not the owner of the car).
You can't "tip" an Uber driver nothing. It doesn't matter how bad your service was. It doesn't matter how much you don't care about being labeled a dick. You just can't do it.
Because the Uber thing is not, in fact, a tip.
Looks like none of 'em hold a candle to Taxis in small-to-medium cities like mine.
Huh, in SF starting from my place to all of the places I might go Lyft wins consistently, and sometimes by as much as 1/2 of the taxi price.
Nice. Now just give me an iPhone app where I push a button and it sends me the cheapest, closest car from any of those companies.
Nice. Now just give me an iPhone app where I push a button and it sends me the cheapest, closest car from any of those companies.
Uber API TOS says: "You may not use the Uber API in any manner that is competitive to Uber or the Uber Services, including in connection with any application, website or other product or service that also includes, features, endorses, or otherwise supports in any way a third party that provides services competitive to Uber’s products and services, as determined in our sole discretion." https://developer.uber.com/v1/t…
I love products like these. Slices right through all the promotional noise like "fun drivers," "fast pick-up times," "clean cars," etc and gets right to chase -- price. At the end of the day, they are all taxi services in my book. Whichever gets me from point A to point B the cheapest wins my dollars. Fast pick-up times, a sexy functional app, and other common sense differentiators are expectations now, not selling p…
Great app! Would be great to estimate "regular" price, right now it's surging and I'd like to know what the price would be for e.g. tomorrow. Hopefully Uber wont shut you off, seems like a breach of ToS to me (I'm not a legal expert).