75% of Pakistani women are unemployed. This is primarily because of the lack of safe transportation, a study by the International Labor Organization has discovered.

Lets just call this whole public transit thing off.

Many taxi drivers let their friends drive their cabs.

May taxi companies wouldn’t hesitate to hire Cosby as a driver since he has no criminal record.

Here’s a typical example of a taxi company providing inadequate service to a wheelchair user: http://www.metronews.ca/news/vancouver…

And here’s an example of Uber improving wheelchair ride services: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/to…

Taxi drivers in Ottawa, Canada are unionized, and they have created a horrible, violent mess. Most of the union violence is directed toward other regulated taxi drivers and their passengers, not Uber drivers. Some background on the Ottawa taxi union mess:

It’s important to understand that the taxi industry today in western countries is much worse than it was 40 years ago for various reasons. In the past, taxi drivers paid a percentage of their fares for dispatch and other fees. In many western countries, taxi drivers are now forced to pay huge, ever-increasing,…

OPTIONAL fingerprint checks are a great solution.

NEVER street-hail a taxi. Street-hailed taxis are as anonymous as hitchhiking. The drivers know it. Most sexual assaults occur in street-hailed taxis. Uber doesn’t do street hails. Uber drivers undergo criminal background checks. Rides are GPS-tracked. Uber drivers are paid by tracked bank deposits, not anonymous cash.