Uber Is Live In Ba

[Rich One]

It takes the same amount of time to collect from taxi insurance as regular insurance. You submit a claim and if you aren't happy you sue. Taxi is an official public transportation here and they have something like a million dollars in insurance ($15M pesos), way more than a regular insurance policy.

Try collecting from Uber on the other hand. You have to file for arbitration in California and the maximum payout is $500 USD. I can't believe anyone would risk using Uber.

Saludos!

Bad information....!! Each taxi has an individual insurance policy for whatever is required for Pasajero Transportado. Spoke to 2 taxi drivers , no such thing as a Union global policy insurance of millions of dollars...

 

[gracielle]

Per TN Noticias, UBER just announced that service will be provided for free for passengers in BA for the next 3 consecutive days starting today @ 4.00pm.

 

[gracielle]

TN just corrected info & confirmed offer. "Uber offer extended thru Wed, April 20 at 11.59pm.....each trip not to exceed $200 pesos.....up to 15 trips per the same passenger during the no charge period". City gov't, via Santili, vice mayor of BA, declared "it's illegal per Justice Dept determination for UBER to operate in BA at this time".

 

[camel]

Uber has fought this battle in many of the cities they've launched in. It's not their first battle.

 

[gracielle]

Another web service (developed in Spain in 2011) Cabify debuts in BA in May. It provides "remis" service. Order via cell phone & online............http://www.cabify.es/es/home



http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1889367-despues-de-uber-llega-cabify-otro-servicio-para-pedir-viajes-con-chofer

 

[Ceviche]

Gracielle - what are your views on the proceedings ?

 

[gracielle]

Ceviche - Like any other business it needs to operate under city laws for the protection of the consumer & the driver. Competition ideally should lead to better service. But this is BA....not San Francisco (my other home town)!

Personally I take the subway during daytime. I often come home after midnight on city buses. Have yet to have a bad experience utilizing either means of transportation. I use a remis (always driven by same driver) when I go to Ezeiza. I avoid taking taxis. I know city streets well but don't want to have to monitor the route home. But then I don't take taxis when in Paris, Rome, Madrid, Athens, etc.

 

[Somewhereinba]

Wonder if the government will actually receive more taxes with Uber considering taxis are en negro a lot of the time?

 

[camberiu]

1) Most (if now all) laws that people claim Uber "violates", exist solely for the purpose of protecting taxi companies against competition. Their strategy to fight off taxi lobbies and the laws they lobbied for via litigation is a legitimate corporate strategy, in my view.

2) I find it hilarious to witness cab drivers who are LIVID about Uber destroying their livelihoods texting away on their cell phones via WhatsApp and telling me about their favorite shows on Netflix. It seems that technological disruption of traditional business models is fine, as long as it is someone else's business that is being disrupted.

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[estebandepraga]

Emails and scanning took business, thus jobs, away from carriers like DHL and FedEx and the post offices. Netfllix from cinemas. Spotify from music shops selling dvds. Skype from long-distance telephone providers. On-line flight and hotel bookings from travel agencies(many will say, "what's a travel agency?") and the story goes on. As a guide, the double-decker buses with multi-lingual explanations took jobs away from us! I still work and the taxi drivers will still have trips and maybe with some good stiff competition, they will imrpove their attitudes, services and prices to compete and if the city really wants to help them, they will lower some of the outrageous prices they pay to be able to drive that black and yellow vehicle. TIME TO WAKE UP AND SMELL THE COFFEE...THE TIMES ARE A-CHANGING!