This month, a group of mostly Black and immigrant Uber and Lyft drivers in Minneapolis won their fight for a minimum pay rate when the Minneapolis City Council refused to be bullied by the rideshare corporations.
This month, a group of mostly Black and immigrant Uber and Lyft drivers in Minneapolis won their fight for a minimum pay rate when the Minneapolis City Council refused to be bullied by the rideshare corporations.
Even then, many taxi companies have apps now. They aren’t trying to pay extra for dispatchers and stuff.
I’ve tried those apps and they’re some of the shittiest apps I’ve ever used
Curb is the only app that ever double charged me, multiple times. I had to dispute the charges with the credit card company. It took like 3-6 months to be completely done with it. They literally kept charging me every month.
Ah yes, the taxi “Bare minimum effort” apps. Seriously, most of them look like they walked right out of the 2010 era of apps. I would say that they just asked their “techy teen nephew that knows apps” to make it, but that would be an insult to techy teen nephews everywhere.
I tried an app last year just to see how things are, the book a cab button just opened my fucking dialer with a pre filled number. In 2023.
The best cab app I ever saw still looked like 2016 (but better than the others stuck in 2009-2010 I’ll give them that) but that one would only give me an “estimated ride range” like fuck that. One of the best pros to a ride share app is that the price it tells you in app is the price you’re getting charged (excluded driver tip) leaving very little room for the driver to introduce shenanigans, like the classic cabbie trick of “oh this guys definitely isn’t local so I’ll take the LONG way around”
That’s hilarious. Yeah they can do better.