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VikingPenguin posted:That's the only version of cabs in most of the US. If I recall correctly, New York City and Las Vegas are the only two cities where you can legally hail a cab. Everywhere else you go to a taxi stand where they sit and wait or call the company for them to send a driver to pick you up. This is super untrue, I've hailed cabs in many cities while traveling for work.
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Dec 19, 2016 00:35
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Does that say 'Autism' on the left?
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Dec 19, 2016 00:36
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Probably, the puzzle piece logo is near the radiator.
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Dec 19, 2016 00:37
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The Pell posted:Does that say 'Autism' on the left? The whole thing says autism.
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Dec 19, 2016 00:38
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VikingPenguin posted:Everywhere else you go to a taxi stand where they sit and wait or call the company for them to send a driver to pick you up.
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Dec 19, 2016 01:28
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VikingPenguin posted:That's the only version of cabs in most of the US. If I recall correctly, New York City and Las Vegas are the only two cities where you can legally hail a cab. Everywhere else you go to a taxi stand where they sit and wait or call the company for them to send a driver to pick you up. I've either hailed or seen others hail several dozen cabs in San Diego so I think you're incorrect about this.
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Dec 19, 2016 01:38
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Powershift posted:The whole thing says autism. 
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Dec 19, 2016 01:54
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VikingPenguin posted:That's the only version of cabs in most of the US. If I recall correctly, New York City and Las Vegas are the only two cities where you can legally hail a cab. Everywhere else you go to a taxi stand where they sit and wait or call the company for them to send a driver to pick you up. You can hail cabs in Seattle. Ubers and Lyfts here seem to be 90% off-duty cab drivers anyway. IIRC, there are limits to the amount of hours a cabbie can drive in a day here, so they switch to Uber/Lyft to keep earning after hitting their limit. And as the Crown Vics age out of taxi service and get replaced by Priuses, the cars are all pretty much the same, too. So there's not much difference. The apps are cheaper for some rides if they aren't doing their fare multipliers, but when they are they come out about the same. And they all drive like poo poo and block traffic and can gently caress right off.
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Dec 19, 2016 02:47
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 Awesome all stock minus the ebay projector headlights and SRI Focus bro!
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Dec 19, 2016 02:56
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FatCow posted:This is super untrue, I've hailed cabs in many cities while traveling for work. I guess that's my sheltered Midwest upbringing showing through, my bad.
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Dec 19, 2016 03:13
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Deteriorata posted:Once they drive traditional taxis out of business, they'll be the new taxis. It'll cost more than the old taxis and the service will be worse, but the drivers will only make half as much. The long game is when self driving cars become available. No drivers to pay, and civilians aren't be trusted to maintain the fancy self driving systems. You'll paying rent to Uber over $500 a month for all of your transportation needs.
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Dec 19, 2016 04:18
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You can legally hail cabs in most cities. Finding a cab to hail outside of a few neighborhoods in a few cities is a rare event though.
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Dec 19, 2016 04:32
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Everyone thinks I'm weird when I insist we take cabs in Chicago instead of using Uber and they refuse to read anything I send them that shows what a terrible company they are. It's usually "gently caress cabs man! Gotta support the little guy!" And I'm like "Uber is bigger than any cab company in the country"
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Dec 19, 2016 04:48
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Rhyno posted:It's usually "gently caress cabs man! Gotta support the little guy!" And I'm like "Uber is bigger than any cab company in the country" When I was in grade 7 a teacher once asked who thought advertising and marketing provided a benefit to society and I was the only person in the class to not put up my hand. Then I had to explain that I thought companies were willing to stretch the truth or create a story just to convince you to buy into their product or service and everybody told me I was stupid and ads tell you about new cool poo poo to buy. The older I get the more I realise how hosed up that was.
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Dec 19, 2016 05:05
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1500quidporsche posted:When I was in grade 7 a teacher once asked who thought advertising and marketing provided a benefit to society and I was the only person in the class to not put up my hand. Then I had to explain that I thought companies were willing to stretch the truth or create a story just to convince you to buy into their product or service and everybody told me I was stupid and ads tell you about new cool poo poo to buy. The older I get the more I realise how hosed up that was. “Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don’t have on something they don’t need.” - Will Rogers
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Dec 19, 2016 06:59
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it turns out capitalism was the true terrible car stuff
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Dec 19, 2016 07:31
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Rhyno posted:Everyone thinks I'm weird when I insist we take cabs in Chicago instead of using Uber and they refuse to read anything I send them that shows what a terrible company they are. It's usually "gently caress cabs man! Gotta support the little guy!" And I'm like "Uber is bigger than any cab company in the country" Last I remember, Uber was bigger than ALL the cab companies in the country. Combined.
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Dec 19, 2016 07:50
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A startup always remains a startup Even after they crushed their enemies, saw them driven before them and heard the lamentations of their accountants.
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Dec 19, 2016 09:23
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:it turns out capitalism was the true terrible car stuff Nah. 
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Dec 19, 2016 09:40
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Capitalism starts with the same letters as Camber CoincidenceIThinkNot Capitalists often take STANCES on topics Wake up sheeple
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Dec 19, 2016 10:39
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The Pell posted:Does that say 'Autism' on the left? Those colorful puzzle pieces are the autism equivalent to the pink ribbons for breast cancer.
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Dec 19, 2016 13:02
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DC doesn't have a cap on the number of taxi licenses it issues, which means that there are many more cabs than typical for a city this size. (There are about 7500 cabs, more than half as many as NYC has but with 1/10th the population.) Perhaps owing to this, I would say the average cab ride here is nothing to complain about, and if you're near one of the hubs of the city you won't have any problem hailing one. Ever since they replaced zones with meters and added credit card readers, I'd say DC cabs are not terrible.
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Dec 19, 2016 13:11
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So the cab systems already in place were lovely in the first place and that allowed lovely loophole finders like Uber to thrive. Not because cabs are bad in and of themselves
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Dec 19, 2016 14:40
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glynnenstein posted:DC doesn't have a cap on the number of taxi licenses it issues, which means that there are many more cabs than typical for a city this size. (There are about 7500 cabs, more than half as many as NYC has but with 1/10th the population.) Perhaps owing to this, I would say the average cab ride here is nothing to complain about, and if you're near one of the hubs of the city you won't have any problem hailing one. Ever since they replaced zones with meters and added credit card readers, I'd say DC cabs are not terrible. We have the opposite of this. The cab licence cap hasn't risen with population. When they stopped issuing new licenses the value of licenses started climbing due to there being no rules against selling them. Now a license is worth north of 30,000 GBP and suggesting that we create more is political suicide. Because they are so expensive the cabbies have lobbied year on year to raise the fares to make back their ROI and we're now stuck in a feedback loop only limited by how much the government is willing to say gently caress you to the cabbies. Which is less and less as the cabbies get richer and more connected.
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Dec 19, 2016 19:00
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Every time I have called for a taxi in Toronto it has been late, regardless of the lead time I give them. I've also had friends throw up in them and we've never had to pay for the cleanup so its a mixed bag. The thing is taxis companies hosed themselves over by waiting until 2014 to get mobile apps. I'm fully aware Uber is trying to push them out and will then charge exorbitant prices for fares when all the legit taxis are gone, kind of like their surge prices right now. but at the end of the day Uber is 1000% more convenient. Try asking to pay with a credit card in any taxi in Toronto.
mustard_tiger fucked around with this message at 20:33 on Dec 19, 2016 |
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Dec 19, 2016 20:31
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 Yeah MS has zero inspections. Not pictured the one headlight clinging for dear life.
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Dec 20, 2016 03:56
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mustard_tiger posted:Every time I have called for a taxi in Toronto it has been late, regardless of the lead time I give them. I've also had friends throw up in them and we've never had to pay for the cleanup so its a mixed bag. The thing is taxis companies hosed themselves over by waiting until 2014 to get mobile apps. I'm fully aware Uber is trying to push them out and will then charge exorbitant prices for fares when all the legit taxis are gone, kind of like their surge prices right now. but at the end of the day Uber is 1000% more convenient. Try asking to pay with a credit card in any taxi in Toronto. Pretty much all of the taxi companies in Dallas are owned by Yellow Cab or Cowboy Cab. Both are consistently late and take your first born when you pay, and always come up with reasons why you need to pay cash and ignore the meter, or the meter is broken, or they want a carbon copy imprint of your card when they're required by Dallas to either take a card via mobile app and/or via a credit card terminal in the cab. No thanks. Uber and Lyft are a lot easier to deal with.
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Dec 20, 2016 04:34
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Sushi The Kid posted:
Don't hate on sick asymmetrical camber bro
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Dec 20, 2016 08:59
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Sushi The Kid posted:
Quarter-Stance Nation
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Dec 20, 2016 12:24
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Not pertaining to a car exactly, but it's car related: the WI DOT decided to shut down two lanes on I-94 East headed into the Zoo Interchange... during rush hour. Because ~reasons~. No really, I checked the website and it wasn't even supposed to be closed.
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Dec 20, 2016 13:54
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iospace posted:Not pertaining to a car exactly, but it's car related: the WI DOT decided to shut down two lanes on I-94 East headed into the Zoo Interchange... during rush hour. Because ~reasons~. No really, I checked the website and it wasn't even supposed to be closed. Chris Christie strikes again.
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Dec 20, 2016 15:18
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IPCRESS posted:Chris Christie strikes again. Part of me wonders if it was that, but yeah, there were a bunch of trucks with flashing orange lights parked there and it is an active construction zone, so they were doing something. What was it? 
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Dec 20, 2016 15:27
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Didn't manage a pic but saw a PT Cruiser today with a Trump sticker and a vaccine/autism sticker. Reaching across the aisle on awfulness.
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Dec 20, 2016 15:35
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iospace posted:Not pertaining to a car exactly, but it's car related: the WI DOT decided to shut down two lanes on I-94 East headed into the Zoo Interchange... during rush hour. Because ~reasons~. No really, I checked the website and it wasn't even supposed to be closed. poo poo, is that what happened. Was heading in for work christmas party and ended up ducking off and taking National instead.
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Dec 20, 2016 15:36
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mekilljoydammit posted:poo poo, is that what happened. Was heading in for work christmas party and ended up ducking off and taking National instead. Probably! I went by around 0620ish? Around there. Backup was definitely past Moorland and starting to reach Brookfield Road.
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Dec 20, 2016 15:49
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So a truck caused a car to go off the road, which skidded for a bit on snow-covered ground and was finally stopped by a wooden fence:  
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Dec 20, 2016 18:48
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I am a leaf on the wind, watch how I-- GRRRK.
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Dec 20, 2016 18:51
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I keep looking at that and thinking of where my son's car-seat sits in the center of the back seat...
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mobby_6kl posted:So a truck caused a car to go off the road, which skidded for a bit on snow-covered ground and was finally stopped by a wooden fence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVMbNMBPEPE
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