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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How old are you? I’m 40 and hesitant with Ubers, I grew up taking cabs and both grandfathers drove cabs. Cabs were regulated.

Uber you are essentially trusting a random person who may have a significant criminal history to get you from point a to be without direct oversight and management.[/quote]

This.  I'm 55.  As a woman, I'm concerned with who I'm riding with, and I was never 100% comfy with cabbies either (especially in DC where in the 1990s, the official cabs were ratty and didn't reliably come on time when dispatched).  In certain foreign countries I've worked in, women are advised never to take cabs alone.  I do use the safety tracker feature that Uber and Lyft have but that's not very helpful if someone really wants to harm you on short notice on the spot.

My college kid just took an Uber where he was pretty sure the driver had been smoking weed or maybe allowing passengers to smoke a lot of weed in the car.  My husband's been overcharged when an Uber driver got lost due to construction and had to take a long way around.  In our area, a simple short ride can be about $15-20 to go a few miles.

In general, despite the convenience, I far prefer to avoid these services.  (We do own our own 2 family cars that are garaged at our residence.)[/quote]

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