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Posted: 4/25/2019 1:48:32 PM EDT
you mean people don't want to ride in an overpriced POS dirty taxi with a mainly asshole foreign driver that charges almost 40-50% more than a rideshare?
the ones out of the airport here are 99.9% Somali and smell too, plus their cabs are anything but nice and clean and they're always fucking mumbling some shit on their cellphone  NYC Taxi Medallion Owners Are Screwed |
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Posted: 4/25/2019 1:50:16 PM EDT
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I always hated how taxi cabs had a broken credit card machine.
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Posted: 4/25/2019 1:51:05 PM EDT
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Cab companies are being slaughtered by rideshare. Most cabbies are azzwholes so I don't care.
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Posted: 4/25/2019 1:52:22 PM EDT
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NYC is a fuckfest. I've taken yellow cabs, uber (alone and ride share ), lyft and they're all hit and miss. Sometimes you get a good vehicle and driver and other times you don't. Mostly I drive my own car, but if I have to stay in for an extended period ( more than a few days ) I train or uber in and use uber sparingly.
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Posted: 4/25/2019 1:53:30 PM EDT
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Me and my buddy caught an uber in Vancouver early this year .he had a turbin on and was talking shit most of the ride.the guy was hilarious..the last half of the ride he was blasting some weird middle eastern music on his bumping stereo...we were piss drunk and the ride back to the hotel was the best part of the night.havent laughed that hard in years
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Posted: 4/25/2019 1:54:40 PM EDT
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Posting from a yellow cab hurtling down Lexington Ave. Just updated my life insurance.
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Posted: 4/25/2019 1:56:04 PM EDT
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Posting from a yellow cab hurtling down Lexington Ave. Just updated my life insurance. |
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Posted: 4/25/2019 1:59:48 PM EDT
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I always hated how taxi cabs had a broken credit card machine. |
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Posted: 4/25/2019 2:00:05 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Wave when you cross 60th and Lex. Used to be my SO's old place. 
East side of Lex or west side? I am now down in the 30s, headed back to Penn Station... |
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Posted: 4/25/2019 2:00:37 PM EDT
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well, that's the kind of shit that happens when you're in the buggy whip business and ignore the fact that buggies are going out of style.
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Posted: 4/25/2019 2:00:43 PM EDT
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Me and my buddy caught an uber in Vancouver early this year .he had a turbin on and was talking shit most of the ride.the guy was hilarious..the last half of the ride he was blasting some weird middle eastern music on his bumping stereo...we were piss drunk and the ride back to the hotel was the best part of the night.havent laughed that hard in years |
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Posted: 4/25/2019 2:01:04 PM EDT
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East side of Lex or west side? I am now down in the 30s, headed back to Penn Station... Quote HistoryQuoted:
Quoted: Wave when you cross 60th and Lex. Used to be my SO's old place.
East side of Lex or west side? I am now down in the 30s, headed back to Penn Station... (so to the west of Lex) |
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Posted: 4/25/2019 2:01:23 PM EDT
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Posting from a yellow cab hurtling down Lexington Ave. Just updated my life insurance. 
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Posted: 4/25/2019 2:03:05 PM EDT
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Cab companies are being slaughtered by rideshare. Most cabbies are azzwholes so I don't care. But many are hot seating Uber’s now |
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Posted: 4/25/2019 2:05:08 PM EDT
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Adapt or die. Sounds like they should be driving for Uber
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Posted: 4/25/2019 2:07:02 PM EDT
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So a medallion is basically a license to be a taxi driver, but Uber drivers don't need medallions to operate what is essentially the same service?
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Posted: 4/25/2019 2:07:08 PM EDT
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The local cab companies in my AO were FUCKING PISSED when Uber and Lyft came to town. They petitioned the city to prevent operations, but have since been getting fucked straight in the ass.
I'll take one any time except for surge, where sometimes it's cheaper to take a cab. |
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Posted: 4/25/2019 2:08:36 PM EDT
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Leaving Vegas now, used uber exclusively every time we are here and have never had a bad uber. Last cab I was in the cabbie was foreignely talking shit because I didnt tip him for the 18$ 5 mins ride. Fuck taxis.
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Posted: 4/25/2019 2:10:50 PM EDT
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So a medallion is basically a license to be a taxi driver, but Uber drivers don't need medallions to operate what is essentially the same service? |
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Posted: 4/25/2019 2:11:53 PM EDT
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So a medallion is basically a license to be a taxi driver, but Uber drivers don't need medallions to operate what is essentially the same service? |
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Posted: 4/25/2019 2:13:33 PM EDT
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hey cabbies, investing in a business is no guarantee of success.
download the app and get to ubering, or find something else to do. the writing is on the wall. |
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Posted: 4/25/2019 2:13:50 PM EDT
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So a medallion is basically a license to be a taxi driver, but Uber drivers don't need medallions to operate what is essentially the same service? Edit, in practical terms calling for Uber is very similar to a curbside hail, but the subtlety is worth a lot of money in the cab business. |
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Posted: 4/25/2019 2:16:32 PM EDT
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So a medallion is basically a license to be a taxi driver, but Uber drivers don't need medallions to operate what is essentially the same service? so how do uber and lyft get over that restriction? |
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Posted: 4/25/2019 2:20:41 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: this is what i dont understand either. basically you wanted to be a taxi driver, you had to have the medallion. i assume this is a law or ordinance. so how do uber and lyft get over that restriction? |
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Posted: 4/25/2019 2:23:18 PM EDT
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This situation could serve as a case study for how government taxation fucks everything up and how the free market fixes it.
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Posted: 4/25/2019 2:23:35 PM EDT
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NYC taxi medallions have been discussed in college econ classes for decades. Now they will be for centuries, like the Dutch tulip boom/bust.
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Posted: 4/25/2019 2:23:51 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: this is what i dont understand either. basically you wanted to be a taxi driver, you had to have the medallion. i assume this is a law or ordinance. so how do uber and lyft get over that restriction? |
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Posted: 4/25/2019 2:23:51 PM EDT
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So a medallion is basically a license to be a taxi driver, but Uber drivers don't need medallions to operate what is essentially the same service? |
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Posted: 4/25/2019 2:25:47 PM EDT
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So a medallion is basically a license to be a taxi driver, but Uber drivers don't need medallions to operate what is essentially the same service? |
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Posted: 4/25/2019 2:33:55 PM EDT
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you mean people don't want to ride in an overpriced POS dirty taxi with a mainly asshole foreign driver that charges almost 40-50% more than a rideshare?
the ones out of the airport here are 99.9% Somali and smell too, plus their cabs are anything but nice and clean and they're always fucking mumbling some shit on their cellphone  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gUBd5K62N8 |
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Posted: 4/25/2019 2:36:41 PM EDT
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Poor fucking babies. They've been living high on the hog for 10,20,30 years getting fat and rich off their government-provided monopoly, and now the ridesharing companies have completely disrupted it.
Why am I supposed to feel sorry for them? Because they can't ass-rape people any more with their vomit-smelling cabs? Oh, I have to sell my boat, no more vacations to the Bahamas, my kids will have to go to state schools. Cry me a fucking river, you parasites. |
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Posted: 4/25/2019 2:37:22 PM EDT
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More than a simple license. The way it was explained to me in NYC was that there were a limited number of "Medallions" issued by the city government. They limited the number to nominally control the number of taxis congesting the streets. Once you bought the Medallion, you owned the right to operate a (single) taxi but here is the best part; they are transferable and do not expire. So, a few people (as well as a few petty government functionaries) became multi-millionaires by buying and leasing that right or selling for many times more than they paid. At one time, a single medallion required to operate a single taxi in NYC cost more than $1,000,000. Quote HistoryQuoted:
More than a simple license. The way it was explained to me in NYC was that there were a limited number of "Medallions" issued by the city government. They limited the number to nominally control the number of taxis congesting the streets. Once you bought the Medallion, you owned the right to operate a (single) taxi but here is the best part; they are transferable and do not expire. So, a few people (as well as a few petty government functionaries) became multi-millionaires by buying and leasing that right or selling for many times more than they paid. At one time, a single medallion required to operate a single taxi in NYC cost more than $1,000,000.  Quoted:
NYC taxi medallions have been discussed in college econ classes for decades. Now they will be for centuries, like the Dutch tulip boom/bust. |
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Posted: 4/25/2019 2:38:13 PM EDT
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There's a few guilds I almost understand like law and medicine but the NYC cab drivers guild always struck me as bizarre.
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Posted: 4/25/2019 2:38:14 PM EDT
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you mean people don't want to ride in an overpriced POS dirty taxi with a mainly asshole foreign driver that charges almost 40-50% more than a rideshare?
the ones out of the airport here are 99.9% Somali and smell too, plus their cabs are anything but nice and clean and they're always fucking mumbling some shit on their cellphone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gUBd5K62N8actually, what makes Uber a ride share? @armoredsaint |
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Posted: 4/25/2019 2:38:52 PM EDT
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Cab companies are being slaughtered by rideshare. Most cabbies are azzwholes so I don't care. Is uber a rideshare? if yes, why? |
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Posted: 4/25/2019 2:38:54 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: More than a simple license. The way it was explained to me in NYC was that there were a limited number of "Medallions" issued by the city government. They limited the number to nominally control the number of taxis congesting the streets. Once you bought the Medallion, you owned the right to operate a (single) taxi but here is the best part; they are transferable and do not expire. So, a few people (as well as a few petty government functionaries) became multi-millionaires by buying and leasing that right or selling for many times more than they paid. At one time, a single medallion required to operate a single taxi in NYC cost more than $1,000,000. Just like pre-86 machine guns. NYC "Banned" new cab medallions fixing the number back in the 1950's I believe. Over they years the value grew exponentially kind of like machine gun values. Uber is doing to medallion values what a general NFA Amnesty would do to the price of machine guns. |
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Posted: 4/25/2019 2:39:26 PM EDT
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So the city created a money-making scheme that’s now going tits up?
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Posted: 4/25/2019 2:40:40 PM EDT
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Those cab drivers apparently hate capitalism, and are angry someone has come in and busted up their monopoly.
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Posted: 4/25/2019 2:42:23 PM EDT
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@4v50 Is uber a rideshare? if yes, why? Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Cab companies are being slaughtered by rideshare. Most cabbies are azzwholes so I don't care. Is uber a rideshare? if yes, why? |
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Posted: 4/25/2019 2:46:47 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Uber is not ride share. Only an idiot thinks it is. actually, what makes Uber a ride share? @armoredsaint |
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Posted: 4/25/2019 2:48:37 PM EDT
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More than a simple license. The way it was explained to me in NYC was that there were a limited number of "Medallions" issued by the city government. They limited the number to nominally control the number of taxis congesting the streets. Once you bought the Medallion, you owned the right to operate a (single) taxi but here is the best part; they are transferable and do not expire. So, a few people (as well as a few petty government functionaries) became multi-millionaires by buying and leasing that right or selling for many times more than they paid. At one time, a single medallion required to operate a single taxi in NYC cost more than $1,000,000. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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So a medallion is basically a license to be a taxi driver, but Uber drivers don't need medallions to operate what is essentially the same service? Ironically, young liberals love Uber/Lift and will eagerly agree that they are superior than traditional cabs. If you explain that this is a prime example of how the free market excels and big government suffocates better options for the consumer, you'll get a glazed-over look. |
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Posted: 4/25/2019 2:50:04 PM EDT
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Leaving Vegas now, used uber exclusively every time we are here and have never had a bad uber. Last cab I was in the cabbie was foreignely talking shit because I didnt tip him for the 18$ 5 mins ride. Fuck taxis. |
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Posted: 4/25/2019 2:56:08 PM EDT
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The system needed to change. Now it is.
It's rare to see NYC make good decisions. |
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Posted: 4/25/2019 2:57:42 PM EDT
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Those cab drivers apparently hate capitalism, and are angry someone has come in and busted up their monopoly. sucks to suck |
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Posted: 4/25/2019 2:58:25 PM EDT
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@4v50 Is uber a rideshare? if yes, why? Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Cab companies are being slaughtered by rideshare. Most cabbies are azzwholes so I don't care. Is uber a rideshare? if yes, why? From what I understand, you don't have exclusive rights to where the ride goes. It may already have a passenger going your way, and may stop there before it gets to your destination. A cab, you're "renting" a shitty limo driver exclusively for the duration of the trip, cab can't stop and pick up more on the way, etc. So, you're sharing the ride with wherever the driver happens to be going ,and anybody else along with him, there may or may not be others in the car, but it's not guaranteed. The difference is in the definition, not in practice, for legal reasons exactly like the medallion. Uber started because of medallion in NYC, prototyped/tested in San Francisco 2008/2009, then opened in NYC in 2010/2011. |
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Posted: 4/25/2019 3:02:22 PM EDT
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Did I make it in before the resident cab medallion defender posted?
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Posted: 4/25/2019 3:03:28 PM EDT
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I've used Uber a bunch and never had a bad experience and they get to my house much faster than a cab would.
I used Lyft once and didn't care for the driver. He was yakking on the phone the entire time, bragging to some girl how he was an IT god. Never said "hello" or "googbye" and managed to drop me at the wrong address. |
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Posted: 4/25/2019 3:08:12 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: @maggiethecat From what I understand, you don't have exclusive rights to where the ride goes. It may already have a passenger going your way, and may stop there before it gets to your destination. A cab, you're "renting" a shitty limo driver exclusively for the duration of the trip, cab can't stop and pick up more on the way, etc. So, you're sharing the ride with wherever the driver happens to be going ,and anybody else along with him, there may or may not be others in the car, but it's not guaranteed. The difference is in the definition, not in practice, for legal reasons exactly like the medallion. Uber started because of medallion in NYC, prototyped/tested in San Francisco 2008/2009, then opened in NYC in 2010/2011. I think you understand wrong. |
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Posted: 4/25/2019 3:08:55 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Uber is not ride share. Only an idiot thinks it is. actually, what makes Uber a ride share? @armoredsaint |
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Posted: 4/25/2019 3:11:01 PM EDT
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Me and my buddy caught an uber in Vancouver early this year .he had a turbin on and was talking shit most of the ride.the guy was hilarious..the last half of the ride he was blasting some weird middle eastern music on his bumping stereo...we were piss drunk and the ride back to the hotel was the best part of the night.havent laughed that hard in years |
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Posted: 4/25/2019 3:13:04 PM EDT
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In NYC it's an option, sometimes it might be your only option unless you want to wait awhile for another car. Quote HistoryQuoted:
Quoted: Uber is not ride share. Only an idiot thinks it is. actually, what makes Uber a ride share? @armoredsaint Regular Uber, you order a car, it picks you (and only you) up and takes you were you want to go. Uber Pool might pick up another rider if they are on the way (or not too far out of the way). Uber Pool is cheaper. Uber Black is if you want a Luxury car, I believe they also have tighter requirements for the drivers. It is more expensive. You pick what tier you want when you order the car. |
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