Cab Drivers Are Losing Their Minds And Blocking Emergency Vehicles In Shocking Anti-Uber Demonstrations

I sympathise with these taxi drivers as their livelihood is being damaged, but come on, the world moves forward and you’ve got to move with it. Uber offers a much better, more convenient service for less cash, of course people are going to use it.

The problem comes from the fact that traditional taxi drivers have to jump through legislative hoops to be able to legally pick up passengers, while Uber drivers are technically just offering people a lift, allowing them to skirt the law. I get why that’s frustrating, but these taxi drivers should be getting together and figuring out a way to make their own service more convenient for people.

It also comes down to marketing - it’s now ‘cool’ to get an Uber, whereas taxi drivers are just giving themselves this image that they’re bitter idiots who can’t get with the times. Every time they do something like this, all that happens is more people are pushed towards Uber.

In every industry the world moves forward and things change. There’s no point in fighting it; the people who embrace the new way and offer the best service win. These guys need to suck it up and be better.

taxi drivers should shut up or lower their fairs.. they make too much money for doing nothing

I use Uber almost every weekend when I’m up in Leeds seeing my girlfriend at uni and I can safely say that they beat every other taxi service in the city. Not only is it easier to book using an app its just all around better from being able to check your route and traffic situation, you get an eta and estimated cost which I have always found accurate.

I’m all for Uber as it will hopefully promote competitiveness within the market although if the above videos are anything to go by we’ll just see normal taxi companies go out of business in big cities.

Yeah, I feel bad for the people who used to have a job that required almost no skills/education, and at the same time allowed them to charge people crapload of money for their services. Bummer.

Here in Norway taxi trips tend to cost ALOT, but when the new el-car laws came around and people started buying Teslas(or insert other EV) as taxis the fare are about 50% lower at some points :)

I get they’re ‘job’ is at stake, if you even want to call it a ‘job’, but..Intentionally blocking in an ambulance? Imagine if someone is in that thing. Sirens are on idiots, someone’s LIFE IS AT STAKE HERE. You could have just killed someone. That’s an obscenely new low, it makes most protesters look tame. I hope you get that into your thick skull you stupid tw*ts, because now you make all other cab drivers look like douches. When you think your job is so important its worth risking a life, well, then..

Feck you, you stupid, incompetent tw@tbags. I always thought my country wasn’t as friendly as everyone says it is, but now you’re just making us look bad.

and thats why i prefer to use the Bus, walk, use my bicycle or ride a car to work
we should just eliminate the taxis, almost nobody uses them. and if they do i bet they wont make more than 300 dollars per month

I love how they say that Uber drivers are flouting the law.
What, like how taxi drivers flout traffic laws?

In Bogotá is even worse. Taxi drivers are taking this troubles with their own hands and they have destroyed some cars and hit some people in order to reduce the demand of uber. In the following video we’ll see a red car (uber vehicle) with two people inside. The girl is an user and the man outside is a taxi driver telling them that uber is not legal https://youtu.be/0ybMfH1fXhs

Why they don’t do this way: real taxicabs with Uber.