Well, yeah. I am stunned they tried this.
Melbourne taxi drivers range from Great Guys, to Rapist. And yeah I have heard stories. I wouldn’t want my teenage daughter taking a taxi late at night.
It’s awful job admittedly. Your customers follow a similar range of personality, with the added extra fun of racism, fair evasion, alcohol and drugs. And the system is setup so that you must keep that meter ticking over. A short drive across town that means you have dead time driving back to a taxi rank is not wanted.
Taxi licences are limited, and are auctioned off to the highest bidder for hundreds of thousands of dollars. It’s a lifes dream of a driver to get his own licence and so run his own car. Uber drivers of course don’t have to pay that, which is a big part of the warfare.
And they’re just expensive.
