As a customer, your foe is not one or the other, it’s anti-competitive behaviour that results in monopoly power.
This might sound as bold as declaring oneself both a Catholic and a Protestant in the 1950s, but I’m a taxi personan Uber person. I toggle between them. That might lower my passenger rating from one star to zero, but I’m anybody’s. I support competition.were given a nearby pick-up zone at the international terminal. This came as a surprise to me. I’d thought Uber’s pick-up zone was by the baggage carousels, men sidling up with subsonic offers.
She’d paid extra for Uber Black, or Uber Green, but she got Uber Invisible. Twice the price, same disappearing trick. No, three times. No – just checked again – four times. Better lock it in before you pay a surge price for the magic car that keeps moving away from you. But isn’t that protectionism for taxis and unfair for Ubers? Access to bus lanes does favour taxis, but if you want to talk unfair, check the Victorian class action taken out by 8000 taxi and hire-car operators against Uber in 2019. This March, the Supreme Court awarded $271.
If measured by scumbag drivers who cut in, tailgate, fail to give way to other cars on roundabouts, queue across intersections and so on, taxis and Ubers are also competitive. Taxis at least have a sign to show you they’re coming. Ubers only have a sign to show you they’ve gone. For driver courtesy, neither is great; they’ll soon be as bad as the general public.
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