I´ll call the uber in 10 minutes.
By marguicha
@marguicha (230350)
Chile
August 2, 2017 12:55pm CST
The uber has been very good for me as money goes. But the normal cab drivers here are very angry and I cannot blame them.
In my country, to get a license to drive a taxi, the car has to be not more than a few years old. They need a special insurance for passengers too.
Uber cars don´t ask for any of those things and anyone with a car can make some extra money there.
One of the thing that have happened is that a couple of Uber drivers have raped girls that called them after a party. The company does nothing to them, not even take them out of their role, much less giving their names to the policemen.
Still I will now take an Uber. It is very inexpensive and I´m sure no one will want to do anything to me
Do you have Uber cabs where you live. Have you had problems like the ones I´ve told?
Do you have Uber cabs where you live. Have you had problems like the ones I´ve told?5 people like this
7 responses
@celticeagle (189927)
• Boise, Idaho
2 Aug 17
We don't have Uber here. They tried to start one several years ago but it didn't go over well. We have a lot of taxi's.
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@celticeagle (189927)
• Boise, Idaho
3 Aug 17
@marguicha ......I hope the taxi's do. They were there first.
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@marguicha (230350)
• Chile
3 Aug 17
Taxis here are very angry. I don´t know who will win the battle.
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@marguicha (230350)
• Chile
3 Aug 17
@celticeagle I hope so. And although uber are less expensive, the passenger is covered by an insurance if there is an accident.
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36847)
• Pamplona, Spain
3 Aug 17
I should say that there is an enormous amount of problems between them and the Taxi drivers of what seems yesteryear.
I cannot blame them for feeling the way they do either.
This is a crazy country to live in sometimes.
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@marguicha (230350)
• Chile
3 Aug 17
And one of the things is that taxis belong to people that pay taxes and uber is a company that does not pay a cent to the country.
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36847)
• Pamplona, Spain
3 Aug 17
@marguicha
Most of the Taxi Drivers the normal ones have protested peacefully and they are still on strike some of them too.
They had to pay for their career which what I call un paston a load of money to start off with.
This is happening in a lot of gremios now also.
@KrauseHome (36445)
• United States
2 Aug 17
We have Uber here. Have never used them but someone told me they do do some screening and checking here ... but you do use your own car. I have never used them yet
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@RasmaSandra (98072)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
2 Aug 17
Yes, they have uber cabs here too. From what I hear it is the same problem with regular cabs complaining. With the economic situation here unless it is absolutely necessary the local do not take cabs only the tourists so it is a real battle as to who gets the money.
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@thislittlepennyearns (68246)
• Defuniak Springs, Florida
2 Aug 17
We do have Uber in Florida, not in the town that we live in now but that's because we are in a small town.
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@CaptAlbertWhisker (32760)
• Calgary, Alberta
2 Aug 17
I prefer Uber drivers, There had been horror stories about scamming and robbing taxi drivers. Uber drivers have less controversies.
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@marguicha (230350)
• Chile
3 Aug 17
I have taxi company that I have used for decades. I´d send a baby with them.
