Non-IT News Thread
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Things my taxi can't do...
- Work globally in every market. They are segmented.
- Travel between markets.
- Be hailed from a global app.
- Maintain a global billing and reporting system for me.
- Do quality tracking.
- Cost as little as Uber does, taxis are super expensive.
- Be reliable.
- Be safe.
- Tell me when my taxi is arriving, what route I took, or track where I was going.
- Tell me the cost ahead of time.
- Be paid for by someone else.
- Free me from government control.
- Be reliable.
- Be private.
How the hell do you think Uber and taxis are alike? It seems like because they both use a car on a road, you don't see the "service" side of them, which is the whole thing. That they both use cars is coincidental, and could change.
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Uber exists because taxi services weren't meeting the need. That means, the entire purpose of Uber and Lyft is to do what taxis do not. That's their function.
It's like making airplanes because cars couldn't fly. Then stating that airplanes have to be simple because cars are simple - even thought the very existence of the one is to meet the lack of capability of the other. People use Uber because taxis are different. Some people do it because Uber is safer, some because it is easier, some because it is more reliable, some because it is half the price, some because they can't find taxis... loads of reasons. The differences are very, very significant.
And on top of all that, taxis cost an insane amount. More than Uber. So even if they were the same, that as well shows why the amount of money involved is a sensible amount.
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To give some perspective, the NYC budget for OVERSEEING the taxi services, without actually doing a single thing themselves, is: $68,567,792 a year.
That's the city budget, it does not include the state budget. That's just the "executives" in the system. None of the actual work.
The budgets of all taxi services, which is where all of the real money is, is on top of that. All of the workers, training, legal, customer service (what little there is), all of that is not included. And the service does almost nothing, and it isn't reliable.
So figure a budget of $500,000,000 for a single city. That's the terrible taxi service. One city. That's what taxis cost today.
Now, take that from a worthless, terrible, crappy situation to a massively technical, customer service oriented, safe, and reliable system; and move it from one city to hundreds.
What people should be shocked at is how cheap Uber is able to do it, considering no one else was ever able to come close to being so cheap before. They leap frogged the taxi service - doing ten times as much, at half the cost.
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But the easy answer is... because it acts like one.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:
We have a whole thread for that.
Oh... I didn't see it.
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@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:
We have a whole thread for that.
Oh... I didn't see it.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:
We have a whole thread for that.
Oh... I didn't see it.
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You can remove these few comments I'll post something in that thread.
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@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
NASA answers some big questions about why it won't buy cost effective, proven rockets.
Wow, seeing those pathetic answers, this is why as an American tax payer, I want NASA shut down. They are an irresponsible welfare system to fund incompetent engineers. I'm so sick of them getting tax dollars and providing us negative return on investment.
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@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Is a bit sad. We've seen 3 pubs close over the last few years. 2 technically not close just converted to another purpose (weatherspoon and Costa)
Some of my happyest days were with friends in the pub
but we grow up and have different responsibilities now. Plus everyone moved to other locations -
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