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Am I the only one using TaxiMagic? Maybe it's just an LA thing. I need to go to LAX, I hail a cab from my iPhone, a yellow cab shows up within 15 minutes. Maybe Uber is great, I haven't tried it yet. But just so you know you can use a similar app for regular cabs. And I have a hunch Uber and Lyft might have been the motivators that led to TaxiMagic. If so, there's proof that taxi companies stepped up to compete.
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For me it's less about the hail with phone and pay by cars thing. It's more about getting a clean vehicle with a safe driver. I've never felt more unsafe in a car than with a cabbie at the wheel, Vegas, okc, Honolulu, seems like the cars are always dirty and te cabbies unfriendly, even with fares approaching the 40$ mark.
For example, airport to our hotel was $42 with tip on Friday night. Today we go to eat and then the airport, generally the same route but a few miles out of the way and broken into two trips. $15 for the first trip, and $13 for the second trip. Both drivers were friendly, in nice modern cars that were clean, and I never felt like the driver was trying to kill me.
To me can companies have been ripe for knocking off their pedestal for a long time, uber has just bundled all the things together that make for a much much better service.