Seriously ... fuck Uber.
If they had any will to improve the taxis, they could have started by fixing the current batch of taxis. Some minor improvments to bring them up to standard (spot checks at the major hand off points) a modern hailing and rating system - you can scan your taxis license and figure out if the guy driving it (he'd need to check in using an app / taxi QR code + his driver code) is a fuckwit or a legit good guy.
A lot could be done locally... don't need Uber as such to break an already broken system and call it a "fix".
Shri its friday today, STOP dreaming about the govt fixing stuff, just get ready for the weekend LOL
Yes, but the headline says "Uber cannot get a break".
Taxi system is messed up thanks to the power house owners like Maria Tam and others who wield influence over the Governments.
Been reading a rather interesting article about how the likes of Uber have decimated the legit taxi trade in places like New York. Agreed, they decimated it and much of it was due to the nature of the existing license holders (not tech plays and fragmented and no will to modernise) - but we need to make HK taxis great again! And no, not going to happen.
By the way, I do suspect that the "generic" Uber driver is not an entrepreneur - more likely to be a fleet driver in HK.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/06/n...taxi-uber.html
No matter what people say about HK taxis, at least they don't stop you from riding for the most trivial of reasons. I'm still waiting for Uber to get back to me about an account issue and frankly I'm just going to take taxis instead.
I take taxi daily:
- Price: reasonable
- Quality of car: usually very average, on occasion abysmal, once in a blue moon you get a decent one
- Quality of driver: 50/50 I'd say. Once in a while you get a great one, most of the time the guy just seem to never be happy
- Quality of driving skills: Above under developed countries but below first world countries
So it does the job ..but it aint great or anything.