Hey Jow Forums let's make this quick...

Hey Jow Forums let's make this quick. I want to have a discussion and ask for advice on my taxicab business (not in the US). Before you react with 'fuck u, scummy cabbie' or 'be a good goy and use (((uber)))' tell me how you'd handle the following situation.

>Want to open cupcake shop.
>Gvt. says it's cool, but you have to pay 50K for a cupcake shop license, sell your cupcakes at a fixed price, and then sprinkle a bit of shit on them and pay up to 30% in taxes over sales (not profit)
>Pay, set up shop, try to put the least shit on the cupcakes.
>Ubercupcake shows up.
>Gvt. says it's cool, they don't have to pay no fees, they can or can't put shit on their cupcakes, their call, and they'll only be taxed at a flat rate of 0.001 USD per cupcake.
>Your business is dead, leaving you holding an empty basket.
>All you can hear is 'lol the free market won goy :^) your business was shit and it was your fault'


I'm facing a 90% devaluation of my assets and a completely disrupted market thanks to a commie government favoring the unsavory business practices of a company that can't turn a profit to save itself and it's living (mostly) out of VC funds while it kills the competition, cause it can. And when I say I, its worse. I'm 25, fuck it, I'll find myself something else. This is my fathers business. He worked from age 13 to now (60) and this happens when he is a bout to retire. What kind of chance of remaking himself does he have.

I accept the criticism towards the industry. It lends itself to pretty shady stuff. I won't defend the shitty service, but if theres any interest on any kind of civil discussion I'll answer everything openly and honestly.

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cabs need to reinvent as the top tier service and put real, exclusive value behind that shop license

I do believe it is unfair re: level playing field. That said, taxi companies and their unions are corrupt as hell and they failed to adapt to technology and if anything tarnished their own name with shitty service.

Though the govt. doesn’t help, the consumer spoke.

That's what I'm trying/tried to do.

I want to copy uber services, set up driver training schools to weed out trashy drivers, optimize the cars repair times and costs to make it more profitable and thus lower fees.

But when you take into account that most taxicabs are owned by people that have it as a second tier investment and have them managed by taxi managers who profit from this horrible business panorama (they charge a flat fee+percentage of earnings) its hard to do as much as develop an app to manage it all.

in 5 years Tesla cars will be able to drive customers where the fuck they want and won't need a driver

1)cheaper
2)safer
3)won't smell dogshit pajeet

fuck you and your company

>civil discussion
>muh Tesla
Hope you are not expecting any serious replies, buddy

I know that Jow Forums is one of the sheep-iest boards, cryptos and all, but seriously? You think just trusting a single company to kill all competition is a smart move?

What if Tesla says that it'd love to ferry you around for free, and then kills cabs, kills uber, and kills cousin rufus and his 1 dollar ford ranger rides.

Then when they have the market, they say oh nvm, i'll start charging you $15 a mile, or you can walk.

It is completely absurd that the government artificially restricts supply.
I'm happy that a business which was only profitable because of those anti-competitive practices failed.

Short term pain, but hopefully the public learns something.
"Ride sharing" has provided great benefit to almost everyone in my country.

This is brainlet tier

shut up
your fucking dad is being remplaced by shitskins driving ubers
ofcourse tesla can make you unemployed if your only skill is driving a car
WHO CANNOT DRIVE A CAR? except animals

Each time you resolve a captcha, you help google remplacing your dad's job

user user anon, listen here, you got it all wrong, you gotta switch from ‘cockney cabbies’ to ‘elite bookables’, focus on the upscale market that books cabs in advance, focus on contacting businesses that might need transportation for their clients to and from conferences, transport for escort services etc and if worst comes to worst hang around the night life district on a friday or saturday night when the drunks are too fucked up to use a phone. The single worst thing about uber is the waiting time, beat them on that, have a slogan like ‘twice as fast as uber, infinitely more professional’ or some shit and you got it down, peace.

1) There is no "safe" investment
2) You shouldn't have invested in an asset with such artificially inflated value
Dumbfuck

ride sharing will go to absolute shit, the margins will literally go negative as the shitskins pile in

>heavy bags

>I'm happy that a business which was only profitable because of those anti-competitive practices failed.


Did you even read my post? Without the current government regulations I wouldn't even care about Uber.

My service is bad because the government won't let me change it, while giving Uber every advantage it can.

1. If Uber was taxed in the same way, they wouldn't be able to offer lower fares. Not to mention particular car models, required devices, yearly inspections, mandatory driver retirement fund contributions etc.

2. If I was given the same regulations than Uber, I would increase my profit margin at least five times. If I translated HALF of that onto lower fares, Uber would be gone in a week.

My dad hasn't driven a cab in years, not that it's a bad thing. it's the investment that got fucked.

Can't. All my rides have to be hailed through licensed radio/app services, my cars have to have a 200lbs, 2 inch thick bullet resistant divider, and the employment pool is worse than a Home Depot parking lot.

The value wasn't artificially inflated. If anything, it was a regulated market. The value was based on a contract between the purchasing party and the state, as in it being the only way to offer passenger transport services.

Is an engineering degree an inflated asset/value if tomorrow someone says 'you no longer need a degree to build bridges, just beat level three of brige builder and you are in rajesh'

Hundreds of attempts have been made to destroy the taxicab system, but all have failed, until Uber, which succeeded because it became so successful so quickly that governments basically had no choice but to give it the ok.

Anyway, you could become an Uberdriver yourself. Or better yet, get into a completely different field ASAP because in 10 years Ubers will be self-driving.

>Uberdriver

I'm not a driver, nor I need to. I have a shit-tier degree that I've turned into a pretty successful production company. That said, I'm worried about my parents future and their retirement.

That and seeing nigger tier niggers that literally steal from you or total the cars to get a day off (can't stress this enough, i'm not exaggerating) win union/ministry trials and I have to pay up.

Contact Uber about allowing for your dad’s cabs to have data gathering software built in to assist training for self-driving cars. Data from professional cabbies who have been driving for years navigating many ‘ethical’ traffic situations (when to overtake, for example) is extremely high quality when thinking about what data inputs to use to train the autonomous vehicles of the future.

Or just sell the business

Example.

>average driver lasts two weeks in the job, literally earns enough to eat for a month and quits.
>need to hire driver because cars that are not working represent a loss
>hire guy, he works off the record for a week, then goes on payroll and I start paying taxes on his work
>he asks for three days off after working for two weeks
>tell him no can do
>he accidentally misses gears enough to bust a tranny (1500 USD in repair costs)
>tell him to have his three days and not come back
>he sues me and (with no proof other than his wife as a witness) claims he's been working for me for an year, and that I fired him wrongfully
>long story short, I defend myself, present evidence of his work, taxes paid, paid back the taxes of the week he worked off the record
>have to pay this niggercunt 10 grand as a settlement or face a trial I will most definitely lose.

>experienced driver

LOL

Drivers are shit. I used to be friends with the people who worked for me. Once a month we hosted a bbq for all the drivers and their families.

Since 2008 (first commie president) this whole 'fuck your boss, the 1%er' attitude destroyed the labor pool. Thieving, backstabbing, ready to quit at the drop of a hat cause they can go on benefits and stay home massaging their nutsack.

Oh, BTW. We tried to think of a way to help break even on lower earning cars. Not even increasing profits. Help breaking even.

We sold ad space with little banners on the roof of the car.

Union went on trial and I had to pay half of whatever was earned by the ad thingy to the driver.

Also, they work on commission, right? If they park the car and go to sleep in it for twelve hours, and make $0 I still have to pay them a full day of work independently from their commission(dictated by law to 40USD, a car brings in around 200 before expenses and the drivers cut).

It’s insane that the government allowed under in without paying anything. The TLC in NYC just doesn’t give a fuck it seems which is strange because medallions used to cost 7 figures and are now worthless.

People went to Uber because of convenience and cabbies are generally human garbage.

The biggest complaint I hear about Uber is the driver isn’t from here and doesn’t know shit about the city. In London the drivers have to know not only how to get everywhere without a gps but general history. If you had a cab service that uses technology to hire/pay so I can get over charged by some paki and give them city and landmark history then you might be beach in competition. Until then you’re fucked.

>That said, taxi companies and their unions are corrupt as hell and they failed to adapt to technology and if anything tarnished their own name with shitty service.
100% this.
It was the taxi lobby group that pulled that shit on you in the first place

>human garbage

Couldn't agree more.

>taxi lobby group
And this

Most commuters don't give a fuck about general history or not needing a GPS, that comes down to tourists but by now already 'know' uber from their home countries. The london black cabs are an off the street towncar quality ride, but uber has already covered with a range of qualities to pick from.

Why would you pick the black cab if you had to walk somewhere to hail vs pick a literal towncar via app to come to you?

kek more like it's exactly what happens/is going to happen. especially with amazon. wal-mart's entire business model was this, based on killing all small local businesses and then jacking up prices. this guy just forgets that someone else always comes along who is better once the wal mart or whoever jacks up the prices. It's not going to get to the point where tesla is that dominant though, tesla is a mess on the verge of collapse

They are just trolling man, nobody is that stupid. Think about it.

People who can't understand hyperbol examples are brainlets.

i worry about what happens when the self driver cabs come and fucknuts on the road start swerving at them for fun, i can't figure out how they program the computer to deal with these goys

Let’s say the phone loses connection. Now I’m in the back telling some rube from Pennsylvania how to get to central park. It’s the fucking trees in the middle of tHe city you cunt. Oh sorry bruh first time here had a fare take me here from Scranton this morning thought I’d stay and make a few Bucks. I don’t give a skit about the history but I do rembember it from a trip to London way back when. It shows the driver is a professional and not some chimp with a license. People like that shit.

Merely one more reason to improve cellular coverage

I'm actually glad Uber is replacing taxi driver scums. I can't wait for the day when Uber fully adopts self-driving cars to get ready of human scum completely. Also either you thread is about crypto or fuck off

classic

Uber is unironically going to disrupted by crypto + ai.

The taxi industry was the one that pushed for the heavy regulations in order to create barriers to entry for competitors anyways. They got hoisted by their own balls.