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Thanks for perfectly illustrating the impact of Uber - now you complain about few minutes!

I used a "real taxi" a lot in Germany, Poland and CZ before Uber. The best approximate they gave me was "in half an hour" and it usually was more like 45-60 minutes, if it arrived at all. The usual thing to do was to take one passing by, but that got you a terrible smelly car with a ganster driver that overcharged 2x-5x.

Since you mention CZ - the taxi mafia in Prague was especially legendary. Can't thank Uber enough for disrupting that.



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