Is Uber Killing the Yellow Taxi in New York City?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ต.ค. 2024
- As Uber's stranglehold over the taxi industry increases, some New York yellow cab dispatchers have found themselves in an unprecedented predicament: sitting on millions of dollars worth of medallion yellow cabs, but not enough drivers to drive them.
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Taxi charged me $20 from work to my house, while Uber charged me $8. No wonder they are going away.
the taxi driver is atleast getting to eat sure uubers cheaper but most of them are having to sleep in there cars to be able to afford to run so low
Uber is a scam but not so much to the passenger but to the individual Uber driver. He/she will not make enough money to be able to afford a replacement car when the time comes. It cost more of less a fixed amount per mile to operate any car including gas, insurance, repairs and the big one...depreciation. Uber drivers do not make enough per mile they drive to cover their per mile cost. They might make enough to cover gas, insurance and repairs but not depreciation.
Largely the reason Uber gets away with this is short changing the driver and also being pumped with investor money so they can cheat the market rates they should be charging until they can push out the competition
Yellow cabs are not going anywhere.
prices aside, i have no problems paying twice more if the service was good. taxi cabs are a bunch of assholes.
they said phone booths would never die
I'd like to still see a few around in case of cell phone tower issues
Sounds like the problem is the medallion system, not uber
The problem all dumb labor jobs are going to robots.
Josh g
Isnt that what they said at the start of industrial revolution?
Leonard Greenpaw Yeah, and for a long time, it was pretty bad. Eventually more specialized jobs opened. Idk if its going to be the case again. Jobs have gotten very specialized already.
No, the problem is that taxi drivers are forced to follow laws while multibillion dollar Uber is breaking them daily.
+James Grant the cab companies are perfect example of crony capitalism Monopoly. Uber is an example of the free market how it was intended to be.
Hard to feel any sympathy when a corrupt business goes down the drain. It is not just New York. Back in 1988 I was in Chicago and it was cheaper to rent a limo to the airport than take a cab. They have been price gouging for years, and giving shitty service. I won't shed a single tear for the US taxis. 😀🍹🇵🇭
Exactly what I was thinking while watching it.. fuck these pricks.
@@olsonmason1 true people don't know uber low rate u cannot afford up keep of your vehicle there a constant work break down
VI G CARIBBEAN SOUNDS huh? Lmao
It's harsh, but every business is evolving. Keep up and change or go down the drain.
Taxi apps pre-date Uber. Check TaxiMagic for example. Adaptation to technology is not the same as "adaptation" to breaking laws.
+James Grant Yep, Uber is technically illegal, but they have money to pay off the taxi commision
+James Grant Yet Uber still provides a better service than shit taxi's. The taxi industry was propped up by shitty regulations, now that a competitor has entered those same regulations are strangling you. You cant have your cake and eat it too buddy. Also, just because taximagic existed before Uber doesn't mean the market should use the product. MySpace existed before Facebook and they clearly are very similar products however look at who is still around and is flourishing. Maybe if you knew a thing or two about markets you wouldn't be so invested a failing industry.
+Oreoboy101 I disagree, I believe you're just misinformed.
+Brian Lucas enlighten me
Taxis in New York will become Blockbuster Video if they don't adapt and change. It's not Ubers fault, it's the medallion system that is holding them back. In Toronto if you call an Uber you might get a marked taxi show up but working as an Uber, using the app to pay not going by the meter. You either adapt to change and go with the flow or you die off pretending that things were better the way it used to be. Netflix didn't kill Blockbuster Video, the slowness to evolve the business model did.
Salvation73 yuh
Blockbuster and Yellow Taxis are better than stupid Uber :-)
BlockBuster was never going to catch Netflix.
Seems like theres a simple answer to this problem ... Well atleast to me .... Just be like uber duh? .... Make an app where you can pay directly with your phone .... And the app will call the nearest oncoming cab? .... I mean there a lot of cabs on the streets just roaming .... But hey i get it cabs are oldschool but they need to adapt!
it's more about the prices then the app
There's things that yellow cabs provide like accessible vehicles that Uber doesn't, this adds to cost.
Did you see the video title and panic for a chance to share your "wisdom?"
The app is not the issue, the law is.
XxMeatShakexX What the fuck are you on about, I don't even ;live in an urban area so have access to neither Uber, taxis or public transit. Point is, in my nearest city, Ottawa Canada, 15% of all taxis on the road at all times must be wheelchair accessible, Uber faces no such restriction.
There already is an app for yellow cabs. Used it before, but they do a bad job of marketing it. I deleted it and can't remember the name. Uber is the fastest but Lyft has the best drivers.
When i lived in Brooklyn during the 1980s and 90s i was never a fan of the yellow cabs. Especially as a black man. I would hail cabs only to be ignored. Good Riddance.
Most of the cab drivers are Indians/ black people tf, race has nothing do with it
Had same issue with black cab in UK.
95% of you black folk run away once the taxi gets to it's destinations. Of course taxi drivers arent gonna pick u up
Amrit Singh With this attitude (and making up this ridiculous statistic you just pulled out of your ass) no wonder no one want to ride in your shitty taxis 🤷🏻♀️
😂😂😭😭right on
Adapt or die, that's natural selection. If your competitors provide a better service, adapt and do the same or declare bankruptcy. No sympathy from me.
Competition must follow same rules. Uber doesn't. In fact, Uber is openly violating the very regulations NYC set for taxi drivers.
And Steve Jobs abused child labor in China to the point the workers wanted to throw themselves off buildings, say what you want but I honestly believe Uber is doing more good than bad.
+James Grant cabs have preferential Lanes and parking areas and can be hailed by non-members on the side of the street. and also instead of wishing regulations on your competitor you should demand less regulations all around. government hinders progress
Weirdly enough, customers still like the service despite them not following those great regulations. Maybe the regulations didn't make sense?
Taxis had apps before Uber. Please check TaxiMagic as just one example of that. Now the app is called Curb. Regulations make sense for millions of existing transportation providers (who offer their own apps) but don't make sense to uber? You got to be kiddin'.
Competition is a good thing, a million dollars for a medallion is thievery and that cost isn't just transferred to customers. My uncle was a cab driver for a while before Uber and he had to pay 100 dollars a day to use the cab (a car worth less than that would raise in a couple months). He didn't even break even every day at first. Any politician who interprets the problem to be Uber rather than the regulations on yellow cabs is pulling money right out of our pockets.
"Is Uber Killing the Yellow Taxi in New York City?"
Yes, and thank heavens.
Yellow Taxis are better, screw Uber
Pro tip for yellow cabs: Make your prices more competitive. Seven mile drive in yellow cab in NY: $52. The same drive in an Uber: $31. Consumers vote with their wallets.
RabidPrairieDog they can't. That's the issue, the cab system is directly controlled by the government, they don't set their own prices
A lot of the time cabs are cheaper for short/medium trips than uber in NYC
yellow cab provide a liveable wage, while uber doesn't. Truth is you and most people using ride share apps are selfish hacks that are willing to sell out fellow human beings to save a few dollars.
The politicians are selling out the working class and the new generation bought into it. How is it fair to work the same job for less pay than about 3 years ago.
The ride share drivers and yellow are both losing cuz neither of them are earning the wage drivers were earning before this corruption.
if what you said was true then there would be no uber drivers because they'd all have starved to death of changed jobs by now
How does a seven-mile trip at $2.00 a mile (the price in NY) and $2.50 to get in add up to $52? Sounds more like $16.50 plus clock time, and if there is clock time you're better off walking or taking the subway.
Why don't taxis go online and create an online app like uber?? More and more people carry cards only. They just have to adapt.
they already have that in NYC, called Arro. People just don't use it.
Uber is simply higher quality than a taxi. I know so because I love traveling.
The price bro.. taxi charge more lol
false...taxi and uber are the same in price overall
Your insane in Vegas a Taxi is 32.50 an hour Uber is $15... Now uber can surge to that price and more but not typically
Sell all the unused cabs to Hollywood, so they can be destroyed in the next superhero film.
lol!
No
superhero is childish
Yellow Cab is not dead, it's on life support.
Time to pull that plug.
I'm not a fan of all the regulations, but if there's a medallion system legally required for yellow taxis, it should also affect Uber and Lyft.
NO you just let the marked decide when there is to much drivers. more divers means cheaper rides and also that each one takes less rides, so people that makes to little money will quit, driving should be a job for low income people since is a low skill job.
Uber sucks balls, Yellow Taxis are better :-)
MR.G pull the plug lol
Yellow cabs will be the next blockbuster if they don't adapt
Gosh, competition sucks for the supplier, but is good for the customer. So, what's new? Uber provides the service that customers have voted for with their patronage.
It looks like the government is actually killing the yellow taxi with regulations. If they are required to have a set price that doesn't apply to Uber then it becomes easy for Uber to take the taxi companies's customers.
smexy1234 _ The Taxi Mediallion system does what so many regulations MADE ON BEHALF OF businesses wishing to eliminate competition do. I AM NOT one who doesn't believe in regulation of businesses when those regulations actually serve the public interest. I AM one who is against regulations intentionally set up by established businesses to limit competition via regulations from BOUGHT GOVERNMNET. There are MANY of those and the Taxi Medallion system is one of them.
Astro-turfing for Uber is a known corporate tactic to divert from the real issue which is Uber violating laws and regulations taxi drivers are forced to follow.
so true, here in Israel we have regulations that protect importers and prevent new ones from coming in and as a result prices are extremely high because you only have one source to buy said product because no one else can import it legally.
If you allow people to sell food or guns without licenses or regulations or insurance, the products will be cheaper too. If taxi is gone, Uber rate will go sky high in rush hours like now.
Looks like the problem is the city not allowing yellowcabs to charge what they want and not allowing them to compete. They blame uber for skirting regulations, but at the way begining when the medallion system was created there were a few men in power who created those regulations in the first place.
YOU RIGHT KENNY AND THOSE FEW PEOPLE RAPE VERY HARDLY POOR TAXI DRIVER.
The yellow cab charges way more than uber. It will die in the near future.
Not always
Uber sucks balls, Yellow Taxis are better
Nobody likes them anymore because there are no iconic Crown Vics left.
true
I still like Yellow Taxis and they're better than Uber :-)
True 2007 vibes
That's the icon of NYC and other Large cities in the US from 1970s to early 2010s , miss them so much ...
I'll tell you why Uber is winning. Taxi cabs refused to innovate with the times, they got stuck in the 90's and Uber saw that as a market to be filled. And they were right...
that's common sense already. everyone knows that.. come out with something new
what did Uber innovate?
Chris Chris Yes everybody knows that. Just like Uber. Which is why they are winning.
Str1000ac It's not that Uber innovated, it's that the Taxi cabs didn't.
+General Sarasota I am an Uber driver and I hate it. we need to bring taxi back
WHY NOT CONVERT THESE UNUSED YELLOW CABS INTO UBER YELLOW CABS??????
datDANK yah they could do a collaboration. Just like uberx or uber black or whatever uber yellow could be a thing that people voluntarily pay more for like NYC tourists. Of course 13000 is still too many. They need to repaint and sell those cars
My question as well......
Thats good idea
I think cab still works better than Uber in cities like New York and Hong Kong just because of the density and that they are always around.
Bry 117 but when your out of cites you use Uber or lyft
*it looks like the cab driver women and the reporter switched gender*
And I thought, the cab driver is a boy and the reporter is a scissors girl . . .
The reason why taxi is loosing it's battle ?because most of them have an attitude problem and their unit smell, riding an uber is much pleasant and friendlier than riding a cab
why don't they make an app for yellow cabs similar to uber
Exactly what I thought
Chilax that way more people would have access to the cabs especially the green cabs in other boroughs besides manhattan even though they may have to do something about the prices
No they can’t make a similar app it would be copyright wouldn’t it plus they would be taking Uber’s idea and they have to give permission
there is already a taxi app called Curb.
+Unicorn RobloxRules dumbass, they already have an app called Curb -_-
Another example of why the free market beats government control.
Filip Jakacki yeah that worked out so well for internet provider competition didn’t it?
BlownMacTruck I pay 44 dollars a month for 100mbps cable internet.
Not in the US you don't.
Lol, got to love when dumb Hicks talk about things over their heads.
@@BlownMacTruck it did in India lol
Heres a problem with old cabs.
1. They need to go tech as well. Instead the old call and come, people like to use applications to do it.
2. Most of the app-based transportation is CHEAPER. CLEANER. FRESHER. Than those cabs. WHY? Because it's the owner's car, so they maintain their cars well. Unlike cabs, the owner of the car is not the driver, but the corporation.
3. The app-based driver are more humble than cabs driver.
4. Have you ever go in the cab as a foreigner and the cab driver just go somewhere else instead of the place you told him? They are trying to make you pay more for the trip. Meanwhile, app-based transportation has a FIXED price. So if the driver try to delay you, they are the one that is wasting gasoline. Because you pay them EXACTLY as the app said.
5. Cabs = More traffic. Meanwhile app-based transportation is THEIR own vehicle, so in other word, we are just 'renting' their cars.
This is my personal thoughts about cabs.
Makuro Tamashi in nYC you don’t a cab , you hail one on the street. Your definitely not from NYC
Uber is doing to yellows,what Walt Mart did to a lot of stores thruout the country.
Wal mart sold convenience at lower prices. If people can do 90% of their shopping at one store and save 10% instead of going to 4 different stores, they will. I hate to see mom and pop stores closing but the non specialty stores had limited options at a higher markup. The specialized stores got taken out by online retailers that can have bigger selections without having main street lease prices. It's not wal mart to blame for others not adapting. Even wal mart can't keep up with Amazon for online orders or long tail items. In 10 years or so something will probably come along and kill Amazon too. The yellow cabs are losing because they haven't adapted to market changes. Nobody wants to pay more for unreliable services just because of tradition.
K mart for example
William Parker Well, what should the cabs do to adapt?
The problem is with the medallion system
Bro, Barcelona told Uber no and created their own app for their city cabs. With New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission charging upwards to 1 million, they can def afford to make an apt and adapt a similar model.
the reason prices are cheaper for Uber, is cuz the driver is paid in donkey shit
Gregory Everson But whoever said that the uber drivers were going to be paid a mint??? If uber wants to stay in business, it must COMPETE. That means charging a lower price for service than the yellow cabs. And from that lower price, the uber drivers wages are derived. The goal isn't to charge a kings ransom for one ride. The goal is to charge a lower rate than the yellow cabs and to get as many fares in your cab as possible. Volume.
cabbie only makes $200us now in a shift? cry me a river
Come to our city and try to survive on $200 a day.
+SearchAndBuild I survived on around 1800 a month, so it's possible.
200 a fucking day?! is this new york!?
Nitron DSP You'd have to go pretty far into NJ to make it off of $200 a day. We are talking about $2,000 a month if you work 5 days a week. Try living anywhere close or nice in NJ for that. No one is trying to move to Patterson or Camden lol.
SearchAndBuild Bronx in the projects
If you watch some videos on TH-cam, some taxis drivers they will not pick up certain people because of what they look like and to see if they have the money or some cause of location.The taxi, they charge more and all they do is drive Around in till they find someone Or dispatch. They take to long maybe bout 15-20 min. I was in New York last year and I put a thumbs up for taxi & yelling for one, Four (4) taxi drove right by me and one pick me up 20 minutes later finally got one. In Manhattan But with Uber it takes about 10 - 15 minutes because of traffic. But the thing with Uber yall know you'll have a nice clean car. you know It will be a little cheaper, you don't have to worry about dirty smoking smell. With uber dont mater where your at. Not like taxi where you have to look for one or call one.Taxi some get cash rob With uber money already on the app ready to go no need to worry about being rip off. There's so much but can't say.
the taxi industry is going the way of the newspaper industry.
The yellow cab killed themselves. Their expensive to get. And the driver is usually a horrible driver. There’s more yellow cabs than regular cars
It's not just Uber. When I was in brooklyn and Manhattan I only ever used car services(not uber or lyft) because you could order them in advance and they were where you were in minutes and using nicer vehicles
Is it mean for me to say, screw them?
For decades, yellow taxis never served NYC outside of Manhattan or its two airports. Yellow taxi drivers would also routinely refuse to transport anyone from midtown or lower Manhattan to black or latino neighborhoods like Harlem or Washington Heights. In Queens, as in Brooklyn and the Bronx, we had to rely on private car services that needed to be called to request a ride. This became much easier to do once cell phones became more common. The only other vehicles you could just step into right on the street were the Jamaican dollar vans in Brooklyn and Southeast Queens. They operated in a legal gray area. Yellow taxis also had a long-standing reputation of refusing to pick up black or brown passengers, even when the drivers themselves were black or brown. But these livery cab companies, the dollar vans and even the highly illegal gypsy cabs thrived in the outer boroughs precisely because these areas were never serviced by yellow taxis.
So for thumbing their noses at racial minorities and anyone outside of Manhattan, I really don't care f they die out or if the medallions become worthless. The medallion holders (most of whom do not drive but made money renting their medallion out to other drivers) who are losing on their investment? They should've driven private taxis and served more New Yorkers all those years. What goes around comes around.
Yes and The taxi industry got what they deserved they didn't want to innovate make a app like Lyft or Uber and at the same time taxis are racist as hell in Chicago getting off the train you got a line of taxis only picking up white people and other white looking people. So they can go broke Hoover Uber and Lyft you can call with no problem you have no issue of not being picked up just feel deal with someone racism but it's way far less
Uber's self-driving cars plan should tell you all you need to know about their feelings towards their employees. Hell, they already make them provide and maintain their own cars. Uber is a successful pyramid scheme based around hitchhiking.
They'd be fools not to invest in self driving cars. If they don't someone else will and will be undercutting them just like they're doing to cabbies. That's just capitalism. The people with the lowest overhead win.
"Make the provide and maintain..." Considering there isn't much in the way of a boss unless you are incompetent and you can choose when you work minute by minute, I'd say that's a damn fair price to pay.
lednerg nope
lednerg let's bring back horse and carriage
The Uber and Lyft people are not employees you dumb arse. They are independent contractors.
Uber charges 50% to 60% less than regular taxis. They are charging way below the market average.
I don't understand what's the big deal with all the yellow cars on the streets. They can still transform them into normal cars and just sell them. Just because the state and the big companies make less money doesn't mean that uber is bad.
Uber is worth 72 Billion! Cars everywhere means less parking for and more money for premium parking lots.
yes because yellow cabs used to float and not take any parking space before, if anything uber has made NOT owning a car more cost effective
Alex C What a silly comment… They served a purpose, now they’re just abandon cars
Idk if it’s the same as in LA but i was 4 blocks away from the train station and it was a very bad neighborhood. I see a can waiting at the corner and I ask “ you working?” He says yes I ask “ can you take me to the train station, it’s a bad neighborhood I really don’t want to walk the rest of the way” he says “ The train station? That like 4 blocks away, I don’t want to drive all the way there.” So I just called a Uber, waited 5 minutes and he took me, not problem. I only used a taxi 3 times in my life. All bad experiences
I think it is great. The whole medallion system seems stupid to me. Limit the number of cabs to artificially increase cost. Uber and capitalism fixed that. Uber provides a better vehicle for a lower price. Drivers are switching to Uber because they can drive a better vehicle, have more freedom, and make more money, than they did driving a cab. It is a win win.
I think it sucks, Yellow Taxis are better than Uber, screw Uber
Yellow taxy is shit...expensive and shitty cars.. fuck them and fuck you indian,pakistani dirtbags
Dont reject your passangers whatever destination they are going. Be polite and decent. Dont carry a gallon full of urine under the front seat. Keep your car clean and your self .And drive safe if yellow cabs drivers do that they will be better. Dont blame Uber of your tragedy most of you caused that people left you guys.
I wonder if you could make the analogy of socialism and capitalism. Yellow being the socialist run, Uber being capitalist? Not talking politics, merely how different the business' are ran/ran by.
I would argue the opposite. Yellow being more capitalist and Uber more communist (by the economic theory, not government theory).
Yellow are corporate controlled. They compete with other cab companies by buying out limited number medallion. Drivers work for with set amount of time. The fleet of vehicles are company owned. Capitalism.
In theory, communism is about a worker driven economy, not corporate. Workers set their own hours. The vehicles are driver owned. The drivers choose who to pick up. While Uber drivers does have corporate to answer to, the Uber company is more or less a means to coordinate and transfer money. They don't directly command their fleet of cars and drivers. Again, this is looking at it from economic theory, not government ideology.
They are both use capitalism though lol.
You make a good point, though I think Darren was speaking more in terms of general distinctions i.e. Where Uber is privately owned and undercutting Yellow with a more sought after taxi solution. Yellow having relatively heavy government oversight by comparison makes it less adaptive and less able to quickly change to provide a service people want. Making Yellow cab appear more communist like in operation, in the abstract. Even if technically/ economically it's the reverse.
Capitalism comes in different shapes. Regulations are not alien to Capitalism.
Rook3v Why does government have to ruin everything :l
It’s def changing things I used to see yellow cabs everywhere as a kid in manhattan
None of this will matter in 10 years. The transportation industry in the USA is going to shed millions of jobs once "autos" and "car bots" replace drivers.
Self driving cars
don't have to be perfect, they just need to be better than people. They already are better than people. Its coming!
Is that by accident or by design?
i doubt it will happen in ten years will take longer just because the liability issues no computer is perfect if a glitch happens you run someone over or get in a accident outcome a person dies someone has to be responsible i'm sure the automotive don't want that much risk but the self driving cars will definitely make riding in a car a lot safer
+ivank20r They just have to be better than people, and they already are. Yes, a self driving car will strike and kill someone one day. That car will have a black box filled with telemetry and video feeds from every direction. Sad news for the person killed, but odds are they were on their phone and not paying attention.
yeah you are right about i mean the google self driving cars already driving around california however the thing that will cause more than 10 years to figure out is that when the car fails a sensor goes haywire makes the car steer onto incoming traffic then who would take the vehicular manslaughter charges someone would be responsible so at the end of the day i think we would required a driver
LOL you're way too optimistic, even for your own good. Self-driving cars are coming in a few decades for merchandise transportation or trading or financial services etc. It's gonna take much longer - I say truly never, since there is a huge percentage of people who like to drive themselves and not let a computer drive them, even if it's 'safer' (which by the way isn't the case, cars need to be 99.999999% accurate, they're about 95-99% right now, and achieving the 99.9999... can take longer than all of those combined :)).
So self-driving cars are a good option to spend some money on stock markets or something, but don't keep your hopes on seeing them on the streets like normal cars, at least not for another 20-30 years.
We were charged $64 from the airport to our house with a taxi cab. With uber we only payed $32 from airport to our house. We will never use a taxi again.
yellow cabs don't stop for black people -- i've never been able to successfully hail one.
So uber and lyft are my only options
Bs
@@dominickjustave3558 ??
Only reason yellow taxis are failing is because of their obnoxious behavior and lack of respect to a customer. Drivers always thought they were doing the customer a great favor by just being there.
What yellow forgot to say is thay charge drivers 100 a day for cab plus permit plus percentage from clients that's 2800 a month it's no wonder their losing their drivers.
Finally I've waited 25 years for this!!!
Here in the Philippines, we really need Uber because some stupid taxi drivers here are corrupted af they either tend to charge you more for a trip or deny you for a senseless reason!
Uber vs Yellow cab in a fight to the death! Celebrity Death Match style!
Its not a fight to the death... Taxi is being beaten like a dead horse by Uber because of their ignorance to flex their regulations.
Uber is breaking laws. So whatever fight it is - it isn't fair or lawful.
Yeah, but those laws where put in place to fuck the user, so fuck the medallion system.
James Grant What laws are they breaking?
I’ve had cab drivers curse me out in foreign languages for paying fares in form of debit/credit cards. One cabbie forced me drove me directly to ATM machine to get cash for payment. They are the meanest rudest men I’ve ever met. Visiting chi & Boston I had cabbies take longer routes on me just to rip me off at their Meters 2get more $$ After I get home and google map it afterwards I realized. I’m so happy and thankful for Uber and Lyfts takeovers .
On the positive side all those yellow cabs are not on the road causing traffic congestion and driving like maniacs.
Does Uber offer employees a 401K plan, health insurance, pension, paid vacations ?
I love, love, love UBER!!!! They took me where yellow taxi cabs would not. You can't beat the price either. Thank You Uber!!! ♡♡♡
It's awesome to hear.
Lol,no more riping off clients ,not picking up black or hispanics. and making driving in nyc worse,🤣🤣🤣
I just found out that sone Taxi Companies are opening up there own apps so they can attract more customers and get cleaner cars because most of the Ford Crown Cars and early 2000's cars are getting too old which means there finally stepping up to late 2000's to 2010's cars into cabs
Autonomous cars will put all forms of drivers out of work. Uber will buy its own fleet of self driving cars with the profits they have made from drivers and then the drivers will be gone. Same idea for trucking company's.
many people dont take yellow cabs because they drive like crazy all they think is drive fast and crazy to drop that passenger and get another passenger thats why people stop taking yellow cab i think all they think is about money at the end of the day money is key i understand , thats just my opinion i have ask people and thats what i have heard .
It's called Capitalism. Uber is more reliable and cheaper which fuels the consumer to choose them instead of other competitors.
Remember the Johnny cab from Total Recall? I was hoping the future of cabs would be like that :(
cab biz need a new biz model.. Uber is begining of the future.
I've lived in NYC for 8 years and have always hated yellow cabs. It's always fun when numerous cabs just drive right past you with the light on and when they do stop to pick you up they're usually really rude. You also have no idea if they're going to choose to go the long way around to try to make more money off of you because they think you're a tourist and you have no idea how much it's going to cost. With the apps you can get a car and know exactly how much it will cost most of the time. Plus, you usually get to rate the drivers using the apps. If we could rate yellow cabs I bet most would have a worse rating than they'd like or would be forced to be more accommodating and polite to passengers
A 1000 dollars on a weekend is the reward for being on the winning end of a state sponsored monopoly.
Added to the fact that poor blacks and immigrants are sent to jail and ticketed to death for running dollar cab services leaves me wondering if I should feel sorry for these people.
"People use to beat each other, and fight over Taxis. Now with uber, it's just peace and harmony, woe is our ancient business model."
In other news the sky is blue and water is wet.
Ok one thing that actually makes I've is is that they always get to us in time because everytime I call a NYC taxi they say 5 minutes but it takes over 30 minutes just for a nyc taxi to arrive
Uber just works better. Inefficient system will obviously fade away.
Fritz Asuro technological Darwinism
Took a cab in chicago one time from A to B and it cost $63. Took the same ride in a Lyft about a week later and it was $17. LOL
The biggest oroblem that killed the yellow taxi was simple.
Rude service
Wait times
Varible rates - i have taken many taxis the same distance and was charged different rates
They got so big and full of them selfs that thier wasnt any kther option for peoplt to choice until now. So your decline was your fault nobody else. You want to be rude, overcharge customers then this is what happens somebody thats feed up with the sevice creates a better one.
Same thing in London. Our transport committee (thankfully) has stopped uber.
Very good quality video.
They should have the taxis repainted as normal vehicles and sell them to decrease the overflow and get some money back🤷🏿♀️
J M Ahhh thank you for this information. I guess not then haha
Free market at work.
I'm Hispanic & Black American. I'm sure now I'd be able to get a yellow cab to the Bronx, and Brooklyn , now then any other time in my life. Or I'll just call Uber lol... Bye Bye, Yellow Cab Mafia...
Adapt and survive..if not they wither away and die..
Maybe the solution is in lowering cab fares. Based on the official rates, a five mile trip in NYC could easily be over $15, or more, depending on traffic, and that's not cheap.
is motherboard part of VICE?
Taxis deserve being obsolete because they overcharge too much just to travel for a short distance, when uber & Lyft charges my $10 for the same distance of a few miles
Lyft or Uber?
Ryan Smith uber
Most people using both to get Cheapest price lol
Ryan Smith both suck ass
Uber
Nether of them luckly☺️
A yellow cab is entertaining as hell to ride in they have little LCD screens that are fun to watch & they have a partition which is nice.
Why does Uber get all the blame?
What about CITI Bikes with stands in every nook and cranny creating more conjestion?
City bike is a nuisance to drivers both on the street and in the pockets of the cab industry.
At the peak of ridership of Citi Bikes before Covid, they were clocking in over 100,000 rides a day. Uber isn't getting the blame here and even the comments seem to reach a consensus that it's mostly the medallion system and the refusal to change that has left the cab industry behind.
I still choose the traditional yellow cab over an Uber in Manhattan. I always took classic black cab when I was in London for about 4 years, didn’t even download Uber back then.
I love taking the traditional nyc taxi, yellow taxis is what defines New York City (Manhattan)
Chioma Ifezue So you enjoy getting robbed?
If you had not been RUDE , abused your passengers, and were NOT so greedy greedy greedy RUDE RUDE RUDE you might have survived.
Poor Taxis!
Evan Kolar why? Uber is far easier to use as you can just pull out your phone and press a few buttons while for cabs you have to yell at the top of your lungs and get bypassed 17 times because you spilled coffee on your shirt. *The better company always comes out on top*. Uber does not have a monopoly. If they decided to raise prices to highway robbery then a similar but different company would just overthrow them. That's capitalism and it works!
wilroth2403 he is talking about cars... poor them
//The Redstone Torch\\ //AVB/\TRT\\ all I am saying is they deserved it and had it coming
wilroth2403 yeah , they should repaint the taxis and sell them , since they are pretty much parked on side of the road, waiting for a driver
//The Redstone Torch\\ //AVB/\TRT\\ lol yeah sell them to Uber 😂
This situation reminds me a lot of the dilema newspapers are now facing. They overcharged for many years, news was printed the night before, now i can get news for the cost of internet and it's fresh news updated the second it happens.
NYC had that weird car service thing long before Uber/Lyft. plus i remember unmarked vans going around on to take people to places, i don't know what that was called but i was on it a few times.
The girl taxicab driver was on Andrew Zimmerman show about food. She drove him around to offbeat places to get great food
Reasonly those yellow cabs are starting to over charge their customers. For example they would charge airport fare when people are just going to new Jersey from Manhattan, refusing to use the meter. It's time they have some competition. Hopefully they will adapt and survive.
i mean in my country cabs are flourishing becuase of uber because they get to use uber etc while being a regular cab as well. in most cabs having 3-4 phones open at the same time each with a different taxi service app (uber, lift, grab etc.)
I'm not a taxi driver driver myself but it's a pain in the butt to get a taxi and be overcharged. With Uber it's what time is going to arrive and what's price . That helps a lot to determine should I get a Uber or should I take the subway or bus. Yellow Cabs are never going to end. Its still be around just not a whole lot.
There's always somebody on the Curve that needs a quick ride
Yellow taxis are the Blockbuster of transportation.
I hope those cab crooks go out of business for good.
In a developing countries in Asia, they combined a ride hailing app similar to Uber with regular taxi and payment has a cash only option. Which proves that we can have both worlds.
He was making 400 dollars in 1 day by driving a taxi? That's insane. No wonder they can't compete now, fuck that why should a passenger pay so much money just to get somewhere.
Seems like the Popstar movie was paying for a lot of ads sitting on idle/inactive cars.
Maybe it’s the price of the medallions; which leads to overcharging the customer. Adapt or die.
Hpw does uber get in the taxi business in NY where it is probably the most tightly restricted service in the country?