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[quote=Anonymous][quote=FoxEmerson]Am I wrong in thinking that Uber and services like Uber will completely make Taxis redundant soon? Seems to me they almost have...[/quote]

Hi everyone, I'm back!  I'm just now recovering from tax season, but uberX meanwhile has been great.  The incessant rain and metro's constant fuck-ups has increased demand and uber is tossing out bonuses left and right.  I'm preparing myself to be a true night owl seven days a week from 11pm to 3am once metro starts closing down early in June.  And hopefully getting four hours of sleep on each end.  I have big things brewing in my life but for the next foreseeable future I'm going to milk uber for all it's worth.  In the next year if your section of metro is shut down, expect to see me around, lol.

Now to the question...no, you're not wrong at all thinking that.  In 20 years, personal car ownership will be non-existent inside metropolitan cities.  Everyone will dial an autonomous car up on their phone and it'll come and get them then go wherever they please.  The perk of living in the city is not having to own a car.  With a (hopefully) improved metro along with a streamlined and eventually autonomous Uber/Lyft/Google/Ford/whatever, everyone's lives will be a lot easier...in theory at least.  Lots of hurdles to get there though.  EVERYONE under 50 uses uber/lyft.   As more and more boomers retire away from DC and other cities, taxis will probably finally die off.  Lastly, cabbies are hurting for money...it's no longer the cherished gig it once was for someone completely unskilled.  Getting squeezed out on money will force cabbies out of the taxi game eventually.  At this point all the taxi companies in America combined can't compete with uber.[/quote]

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