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Robin9 · August 16th 16, 02:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by

In article , (Roland Perry)
wrote:

In message , at 09:58:33 on Tue, 16 Aug
2016, tim... remarked:
And when Uber drivers arrive for a pick up at someone's house, surely
they announce themselves in the same was as any mini cab would?

Or do they just sit outside and "hope"?

My experience of (pre-Uber) minicab drivers is they just sit outside
in the road tooting the horn until someone emerges from the house.
Yet another completely illegal procedure, of course.

The only ones who actually come to the door are airline courtesy
"limos" for business class flights (and I've not had one of those for
years).

Certainly not true in Cambridge. Our experience over more than ten years is
that hire car drivers invariably come to the door in Cambridge. London's
hire car market is obviously a complete shambles.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

It's not a shambles in the normal sense of that word. It's just
that it's dominated by people for whom quality of service is
an alien concept.