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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Living in DC in the 90s and early 2000s would have cured this idea that cabs are "regulated".  I once had a driver who has an old school TV strapped to his dashboard and was watching movies and ALMOST KILLED us on the way home.  He still charged me triple.  Maybe if you grew up in NYC you are used to a well regulated cab industry, but in DC it was AWFUL.  Uber quickly changed the game and it was glorious.  Cabs in DC didn't even take credit cards until like 2013! And they fought it!  Because they were so used to ripping people off in cash.[/quote]

I was here (native) and frequently taking cabs then.

Yes, they sucked, but that doesn't necessarily make Uber safer.[/quote]

Yes, it does.   I remember being trapped at the wharf and many other places after calling for a cab and they never came.   It was terrifying.  [/quote]

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