How City of New York Sold Out Taxi Drivers and their Families to Uber 40% of New York City medallions are owned by independent owner / drivers who support their families by driving full-time and following the rules. After auctioning these medallions for hundreds of thousands of dollars, the city has allowed Uber and other app-based services to run unruly and rampant throughout the city, decimating the value of […]
How City of New York Sold Out Taxi Drivers and their Families to Uber
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It's too bad the medallions were so expensive in the first place. There are things that created value for the passengers, like gas, the car, the driver's labor, but for me it defied common sense that the medallion could be worth 40x what the car was worth. I can see a parallel with Uber and Lyft coming in to airline deregulation. In the late 1970's airline capacity was set by the government and fares were regulated. When things were deregulated, the airlines had to adjust capacity and figure things out.
I REMEMBER TIME AFTER TIME THOSE YELLOW CABS WOULD NOT STOP FOR BLACK PEOPLE AND LEAVE THEM STANDING THERE. RACIST BASTERDS SO GUESS WHAT FUCK EM. THE CHICKENS HAVE COME HOME TO ROOST.
It's sad to watch people cry about making bad investments and expect other people to feel bad and help them. The candle makers try to block the light bulb. Medallion owners got screwed by timing…nothing else.
What are they bitching about, Manhatan is not enough for ya? When they say they operate with no rules thats false. Uber drivers can't pick up on the street only pre-arranged rides. Not only that they pay TLC the same fees and follow the same regulations. These yellow cabbies need to wake up and compete with Uber or keep crying and bitching.
They showed you the research for you? That's when you do your own research!
Bullshit! Why should anyone have to pay a million dollars for the privedge of driving someone somewhere. This is a monopoly. I'm an Uber driver and I pretty much make minimum wage. Why can't it be legal for people to take passengers on rides on their own accord? Bot systems are insane.
we don't run meters we are 2:50 a mile or 3 dollars pp I'm in Lansing mi
Crooked Mike Bloomberg and inept governor Cuomo destroyed the NYC taxi industry forever!!!
What really pisses me off is that fucking Uber is testing the driverless cars!!! All these millions of idiot Uber drivers will be out of a job soon. After they helped build a greedy company. Fucking sad!
Uber are nothing more than snakes in the grass, they are Satan's offspring http://uberpeople.net , go check out the complaints section, or your city section or the news section, or the ridiculous driver turnover section. I've does nothing but take advantage of low IQ desperate people, it sucker's them into a bottomless pit with false promises.
These drivers trying to fight civilization and innovative progress, same shit happened in the early 1900's when machines started replacing workers in factories. Humanity isn't going to cease its advance towards the future just for you to keep a job, so dumb.
It was a rack for 60 years. Sucks for the individual taxi driver who borrowed money to buy a medallion but the alternative hurts consumers. So tough. Fuck the taxi monopoly.
Bad for taxi drivers. Great for riders like myself. I recall one of the worst taxi situations that happened on Christmas eve 2014. I was leaving work and headed to a walmart 5 minutes away. The driver charged me 20$. The walmart was closing down for Christmas eve as we pulled in and I didn't know they were closing. So I said, "how much to go home?" Another 5 minute drive. He told me $40 total. I wasn't going to pay that and gave him a 20 and walked home in the dark & freezing rain. Thank god for Uber. That scenario with Uber will cost me roughly 8$. Good riddance to taxi's.
cut your loses and get withe program.
all the people whose commenting negative please tell me one thing. Uber has gauged the price upto 10 times during busy time but cabs price are always constant.
The medallions were a scam, in the end the passengers had to pay much more because of them.
Very sad
sacntuty is how its done.
and ya all go to church?????
toby keith gots a eugenics hitler pinto truck.see,ford hitler ,too.bible shake down.
tube,all i want for christmass is jews.funny but true.
bible empire wins born again.why its called jew york today.the jew every where.
I live in England and if I want to go anywhere I drive myself, taxi drivers here are 1: Mostly foreign. 2. Have no respect for other road users. 3. Think they have a law of their own and can do whatever they want. 4. They can be expensive (especially black cabs in city centres) 5. And private hire are unreliable.
fuck the taxis. We're here! American jobs for Americans!
The Medallion is your license to Operate legally as a Taxi driver. Which I think is a rip off, so many middle man making money from the same taxi car, the city, the taxi company, the Feds, the tech industry by equipping those taxis with all the gadgets. Etc. and guess who used to pay for all of that? Yeah you guess right! The passengers, the customers were paying for all of that, like I said a rip off. This people were making a hundred thousand or more by scamming the citizens with those expensive taxi rides.
Another story about failed industry regulation. NYC has no-one to blame but themselves for monopolizing the industry, regulating prices, and then blaming the consumer for choosing the cheaper option instead of innovating and competing. What a shame.
I see all uber drivers afraid of bad ratings,kiss the passenger`s culo for a 5 star rating,that sucks.
Wow This video is so one side it is not even funny. So many wrong statements in this video. Uber drivers have to go through the same application process and payments of fees. They have to play the same TLC Rules. The only thing is they don't have to pay that over over over over price medallion.
serves them right for not coping up with technology…
maybe they should create their own app… compete as equals… not as underdogs
That is one tough lady (13:50). Pay attention when tough people cry
fuck uber
people like convenience.. a few cab drivers suffer but alot of new yorkers benefit.they can now get a cab at anytime anywhere. and they wont be turned down because they are going to brooklyn or bx. theres a reason why people prefer uber/lyft.. while these people are making less money on the other side there are alot of uber/lyft drivers making a living.. i dont feel sorry for this monopoly at all.. competition is good. now cabs even started to treat their passengers better finally
thats my friend placeda on the video the female driver ..one love girl i missed you ..yes im a yellow cab driver but these cab drivers bougbt their medallions to early before uber conquered now its the time to buy but it is still on shaky grounds cause no one knows the future outcome of the medallions but one thing I've heard lately from david pollack the taxi insider news guy that by next year 2017 the meters on yellows wlill be replaced with a tablet device on the dashboard making payments electronically and a new app called hookah …wow thats a dream cone true but if all works well watch out uber cause the yellows might make a comeback and a smack to your faces ..on another note this might send all hack drivers back to tlc school to learn the new system..
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