i still dont get how it has 'created' jobs?
i get how uber is convenient/practical for a customer; how is it thaat beneficial for the taxi driver?
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#3220k jobs created? Is hired car use really going up that much? If I had to guess, I'd say a handful of new jobs are created while the rest are just taken from existing taxi companies. Not that I think there's anything wrong with that. I just think the stat is pretty misleading.
I personally use Uber at least 20-50x as often as I would use taxis. That is, for each Uber trip I take, I would take only 1/20 to 1/50 of the same trips via taxi given the choice.
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#33Politically speaking, it is very, very smart that Uber is doing these sorts of studies. As a policy wonk, I wish they were a bit more open about their datasets, analyses, and methodology, but I can see how that would just hand their opponents chances to twist it. Re: jobs created, note that Uber (very specifically, is my guess) allows us to assume FTE when they say "jobs," but is probably more likely referring to the…
I assume FTE = Full-time equivalent (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full-time_equivalent) in this context.
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#34These stats are mindblowing. Uber is available to a little less than half of all Americans and with an average pickup time of < 10 mins. I'm amazed they were able to accomplish this in 4 years. Travis Kalanick is an insane entrepreneur.
I'm living in one of the top cities in the Bay Area and they don't yet cover there.
Bay Area is not a country, not even a state, so saying "one of the top cities" doesn't make any sense.
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#35I guess this is actual disruption - lots of people are already complaining about loosing jobs :).
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#36Does this mean more people are taking Taxis?
My guess is yes. Uber makes it so easy to quickly and painlessly get a ride that I find myself using the service much more often than I would a normal Taxi in the past. From casual observation I find this to be true for the majority of my friends and even family members as well. Normal Taxi services are a pain in the ass to book, not connected to my credit card (so you have to go through the whole guilt trip for not…
I'm surprised taxi services are so far behind here. Why can't I request a taxi in a single click, select the vehicle, charge it to my account, see the location of the taxi on a map and the ETA until it arrives? Why can't I see the route it'll take, or modify the route myself and set a waypoint?
I'm sure some taxi services offer a couple of these features, but none of the ones that I've used. I think one had online booking, but it was broken and I had to find a phone, and then I got no answer, and then I was on hold for 5 minutes.
Why can't I set a custom alert, so I get notified when the taxi is 2 minutes away? That way I don't have to keep looking out the window, or spend 15 minutes sitting on a curb, wondering if they forgot, and I'm going to be late.
If taxis are losing business to Uber, it's their own fault, and lack of innovation.
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#3720k jobs created? Is hired car use really going up that much? If I had to guess, I'd say a handful of new jobs are created while the rest are just taken from existing taxi companies. Not that I think there's anything wrong with that. I just think the stat is pretty misleading.
smells like bullshit
20k "jobs" / mo gives 240k jobs / year putting them in the top 20 largest private employers in the us [1] with just one year's claimed growth
edit: there may well have been a month where, for sufficiently lax definitions of "created" and "job" it is indeed true that "20,000 JOBS CREATED ON THE UBER PLATFORM EVERY MONTH" but I'm highly skeptical this claim is close to true in anything but the most generous sense
edit2: to their credit, they reported median income and not mean
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_employers_in_th...
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#3820k jobs created? Is hired car use really going up that much? If I had to guess, I'd say a handful of new jobs are created while the rest are just taken from existing taxi companies. Not that I think there's anything wrong with that. I just think the stat is pretty misleading.
I personally use Uber at least 20-50x as often as I would use taxis. That is, for each Uber trip I take, I would take only 1/20 to 1/50 of the same trips via taxi given the choice.
I think this accounts for the increased use. I would go out of my way to avoid taking a Taxi because they're so inconvenient and opaque.
I still don't plan to start using Uber extensively because I'm used to walking at this point, but the combination of transparent upfront pricing, accountability, ease of use, speed of pickup, and seemingly typically lower pricing is a compelling case versus zip car. Definitely an actual competitor with walking and public transit, whereas I see Taxis as only really a competitor with driving.
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#3920k jobs created? Is hired car use really going up that much? If I had to guess, I'd say a handful of new jobs are created while the rest are just taken from existing taxi companies. Not that I think there's anything wrong with that. I just think the stat is pretty misleading.
I personally use Uber at least 20-50x as often as I would use taxis. That is, for each Uber trip I take, I would take only 1/20 to 1/50 of the same trips via taxi given the choice.
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm living in one of the top cities in the Bay Area and they don't yet cover there.
Bay Area is not a country, not even a state, so saying "one of the top cities" doesn't make any sense.
My point being they are stating that their service is available to 137M people. The bay area is one of the top population centers in the US so I'm surprised they say they can get 40-50% coverage.