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solyin • today at 4:15 AM • 2 replies • view on HN

Which is the stupidest fucking thing ever. There should just be a line of cars waiting to pick you up and you get in line and that car drives you to your destination. Aka a taxi stand, just with technology. Get in the car, the driver scans a QR code on your phone that was generated by you, telling the driver where to go. The reason we can't just do that is because taxi laws are stupid and Ubers are not a taxi so we're forced to play that stupid game because money and power and politics so things remain stupid until the person in power blocking progress ages out aka dies of old age.


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NamTaf • today at 5:46 AM

That is exactly how it works at airports in India

htrp • today at 5:10 AM

taxi lobby f*ed up a golden opportunity there