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0 pointsdragontamer9y ago0 comments

Taxis once provided a good service. Just 20 years ago, you needed a specialist to take you to random places in a new city.

Then a little thing called the "GPS" was invented. Uber takes advantage of the GPS and anybody can now plot a course to anywhere without specialist knowledge of a city.

The strange thing is, people seem to have forgotten what life was like before GPS.

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the_duke9y ago

Good point.

In Vienna (Austria), taxi drivers had to pass a pretty tough exam which required intimate knowledge of the cities streets.

A good driver still makes a difference in the age of GPS, because you can often safe quite some time by avoiding certain points of congestion and factoring in traffic.

But with GPS that incorporates (live) traffic data, the additional value is a lot smaller.

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