Uber v Taxis
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<p>Cyclings a very third world way of getting around and that's before we delve into the murky motivations behind wearing bike pants and sharing the sight of your scrotum with unsuspecting cafe diners.<br>
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<p>As I said, I do it because I enjoy it. I don't need a car to prove I'm rich and successful like you do :)</p>
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<p>I've never worn lycra into a cafe at all, fuck those guys.</p>
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<p>The only time I wear lycra is on training rides and is a necessity for comfort reasons. (most Sundays I hit the hills for 4-6 hours). You'd get some pretty uncomfortable chafing doing that in cotton rugby shorts.</p> -
I'm a bit torn over the issue. On the one hand it seems unfair to someone who has followed the rules and paid a shitload for a taxi license. On the other hand, the price and quality of taxis are so shit that they don't deserve customers. I've used Uber quite a few times. They're really really good. Clean car, reasonable prices, nice competent drivers, even a bottle of water or mints. <br><br>
Taxis are now ridiculously expensive and instead of being driven by a local who knows pretty much every street, you get someone who appears to have been in the country for 5 minutes and who doesn't even know where major highways are. My wife needed a taxi home from the hospital once and the driver had no idea how to even get near her destination.<br><br>
The father of one of the kids in my sons soccer team is an uber driver. It isn't great money, but you can clock on and off at any time and it's a great way to supplement your income. This particular fella works over the other side of town and on Friday afternoon he'll switch on the app and make some money on the way home.<br><br>
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<p>Taxi service up here sucks, don't think we have Uber at all...</p>
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<p>I joined a Workingmans type club, who have a courtesy van, and plenty of memebrs use it as a taxi service: ie get to the Club, have a few, van takes you out to restaurant or where ever, get van to bring you back, have a couple more brews and get it to take you home, usually gold coin donation per person.</p>
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<p>When I first arrived in the UK and got stranded at Baker Street at 2am a black cab driver got me and my mate lost and wanted to charge us the full fare (£115) once we eventually got home, but we offered him £60 otherwise we were gonna leg it (having pulled up down the road form our house) </p> -
<p>Havent used a taxi for a long time now. Always uber - to clients, to/from functions, airports etc.</p>
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<p>Actually used uber a lot on Bangkok over the past few weeks as felt safer than their dodgy taxis and better than tuk tuks. So cheap there too. 20min ride across town cost us 73 baht (about $3) and that was at surge rates too. Awesome.</p> -
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<p>Dry July also helps!</p>
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<p>I'm doing fucken well so far, extremely proud of myself, helps when the beer is in the garage at the other halfs place and have lost a kg or two already.....</p>
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<p>As I said, I do it because I enjoy it. I don't need a car to prove I'm rich and successful like you do :)</p>
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<p>I've never worn lycra into a cafe at all, fuck those guys.</p>
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<p>The only time I wear lycra is on training rides and is a necessity for comfort reasons. (most Sundays I hit the hills for 4-6 hours). You'd get some pretty uncomfortable chafing doing that in cotton rugby shorts.</p>
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<p>I'm a real non car guy too to be fair. Have never owned anything particularly flash and as a topic of conversation it gets boring really fast.</p>
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<p>Taxi service up here sucks, don't think we have Uber at all...</p>
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<p>I joined a Workingmans type club, who have a courtesy van, and plenty of memebrs use it as a taxi service: ie get to the Club, have a few, van takes you out to restaurant or where ever, get van to bring you back, have a couple more brews and get it to take you home, usually gold coin donation per person.</p>
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<p>Is very handy!</p>
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<p>When I first arrived in the UK and got stranded at Baker Street at 2am a black cab driver got me and my mate lost and wanted to charge us the full fare (£115) once we eventually got home, but we offered him £60 <strong>otherwise we were gonna leg it</strong> (having pulled up down the road form our house) </p>
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<p>You were boasting about your incredible pace on the MN5 fitness forum, I can only imagine how rapid you would have been in your prime.</p> -
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<p>I'm a real non car guy too to be fair. Have never owned anything particularly flash and as a topic of conversation it gets boring really fast.</p>
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<p>Ha ha I hear you.</p>
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<p>Nothing 'bores me more than retards arguing over which is better, Holden or Ford! They are both RUBBISH (I own a Holden and drive a ford for work)</p> -
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Ha ha I hear you.<br><br>
Nothing 'bores me more than retards arguing over which is better, Holden or Ford! They are both RUBBISH (I own a Holden and drive a ford for work)</p></blockquote>
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<p>I've only had positive experiences with Uber. The convenience and the price are what sets it apart from taxis.</p>
<p>I love that I can request a car within my iphone, get a quote, agree, and be in the car within 2-3 minutes paying 30% less than what I would in a taxi.</p>
<p>The drivers I've spoken to find it ok. None of them bad mouthed Uber.</p>
<p>I lived in the UK for 8 years and did not have a bad experience in a Black Cab.</p>
<p>In Australia... been back here for 6 years, numerous bad experiences with taxi drivers. Some are aggressive, some are racist... and some are just plain d1ckheads.</p> -
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<p>Ha ha I hear you.</p>
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<p>Nothing 'bores me more than retards arguing over which is better, Holden or Ford! They are both RUBBISH (I own a Holden and drive a ford for work)</p>
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<p>Amen brother, amen. One thing that pisses me off even more than people arbitrarily aligning themselves to State of O teams is "hilarious" memes about Ford drivers being gay.......because they drive Fords !!!!!! Oh the hilarity.........</p>
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<p>I drive a Ford but I'm into women, what is wrong with me ?</p> -
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Amen brother, amen. One thing that pisses me off even more than people arbitrarily aligning themselves to State of O teams is "hilarious" memes about Ford drivers being gay.......because they drive Fords !!!!!! Oh the hilarity.........<br><br>
I drive a Ford but I'm into women, what is wrong with me ?</p></blockquote>
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<p>Bloody hell mate, you really left the goal mouth open there</p>
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<p>Only if I cared what people thought about the car I drive. A photographer mate of mine proudly states that his camera gear is worth close to twenty times what his car is worth.</p> -
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<p>Only if I cared what people thought about the car I drive. A photographer mate of mine proudly states that his camera gear is worth close to twenty times what his car is worth.</p>
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<p>A lot of people see cars as status symbols.... that's why I got a bit annoyed about Jegga claiming cyclists are Third world</p>
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<p>It happens a lot with cyclists too, I'm constantly hearing about other blokes $10,000 carbon racing bikes. Most of whom would benefit far more from dropping 10kg than spending so much on a bike to make them go marginally faster.</p>
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<p>My race bike is a 12 year old Cannondale, which I've maintained superbly and still rides like new, and I smash those losers up the hills on it too.</p> -
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<p>A lot of people see cars as status symbols.... that's why I got a bit annoyed about Jegga claiming cyclists are Third world</p>
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<p>It happens a lot with cyclists too, I'm constantly hearing about other blokes $10,000 carbon racing bikes. Most of whom would benefit far more from dropping 10kg than spending so much on a bike to make them go marginally faster.</p>
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<p>My race bike is a 12 year old Cannondale, which I've maintained superbly and still rides like new, and I smash those losers up the hills on it too.</p>
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<p>A mate of mine spent 12k on a bike and is well into cycling, so much that I haven't seen him in months.</p>
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<p>I'm all for fitness and what have you but as I alluded to, a fucken huge cycleway was added in island bay and yet they STILL complain. I go down that way at least twice a day and rarely if ever see it being used.</p> -
<p>Uber is the near perfect modern business for getting from A to B. It's all down via your smartphone, you don't have to part with any direct cash (Win-win for driver and passenger), has a decent supply and demand model and is all setup for the next step (driverless cars) as Kirwan pointed out.</p>
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<p>But the best thing is that it's international. It's the same app anywhere, and the same billing service. Get off the plane into another country, pull the phone out and off you go. It really is that simple.</p> -
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A lot of people see cars as status symbols.... that's why I got a bit annoyed about Jegga claiming cyclists are Third world<br><br>
It happens a lot with cyclists too, I'm constantly hearing about other blokes $10,000 carbon racing bikes. Most of whom would benefit far more from dropping 10kg than spending so much on a bike to make them go marginally faster.<br><br>
My race bike is a 12 year old Cannondale, which I've maintained superbly and still rides like new, and I smash those losers up the hills on it too.</p></blockquote>
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I said it was a third world way of getting around, . <br>
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<p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.insurancebusinessonline.co.nz/nz/news/breaking-news/new-chch-uber-drivers-will-wear-any-insurance-issues-219106.aspx'>http://www.insurancebusinessonline.co.nz/nz/news/breaking-news/new-chch-uber-drivers-will-wear-any-insurance-issues-219106.aspx</a></p>
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<p>Nearly 60 Uber drivers have been caught operating illegally in the two months since the ride-sharing service speeded up and relaxed its registration process for new drivers when it launched in Christchurch.<br><br>
The New Zealand Transport Agency said it was cracking down on the new way Uber was operating as it was illegal, and sending any new drivers registering with the company an outline of what their legal obligations were.<br><br>
“We are making it very, very clear to new drivers that come on board what their legal obligations are,†NZTA operations manager Kate Styles told <em>Radio New Zealand</em>.<br><br>
“The fines will be on them, the record will be on their own drivers licence, any insurance issues they will be wearing those.<br>
“People are under no illusion that they are liable.â€<br><br>
About 1,700 drivers had signed up to Uber in the past two months, she said.<br><br>
“Over the last two months we have been really clear with Uber that the new way they are operating is illegal,†she said.<br><br>
Coinciding with its Christchurch launch, Uber adopted a different driver registration model to its Auckland and Wellington services, despite not getting the green light from the Government to do so.<br><br>
In Christchurch, Uber drivers can get approved through a registration that costs $20 and takes six days to obtain. They usually require a ‘P’ endorsement – a passenger endorsement ticket from the NZTA that costs $2,000 and takes three months to get.<br><br>
This change has triggered a drop in income according to Christchurch’s taxi drivers, who staged a protest in the city earlier this week.<br><br>
Taxi Federation spokesman Tim Reddish said Uber drivers had not been made to meet the same legal requirements as taxi drivers, such as compliance costs, full criminal checks and marked cars.<br><br>
“We have no worries about the competition, what we are concerned about is an even market playing field, passenger safety guarantees, and the current legislation are being observed, and they’re not being,†<em>Radio New Zealand</em> reported.</p>
