When talking about Uber, it’s important to get one thing out of the way: the popular ride share program is not a great service. Yes, the rare pleasant drive equipped with Kirkland Signature water bottles and a complimentary iPhone charger occasionally presents itself like a majestic white dove in a sky of soot-stained pigeons, but most Uber rides feel akin to paying a stranger’s glitchy GPS to lead you home.
This stands in sharp contrast to your average taxi driver: locals with one-way streets and stop signs etched into their skin from years on the road. Timid navigation systems are replaced with the occasional screeching swerve or angry honk, all in the name of getting you, the ever important passenger, where you need to be on time.
Claudia McNeilly – Special to National Post – January 17, 2017.
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