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The reason that Uber and Lyft were eating the taxi business's lunch: Less cost and better service.



In part by ignoring city and state laws!


Because those laws led to low availability, high prices and subpar service. And now they will lead to it again.


Sure. That wasn't the point of this conversation, though. The point of this conversation was why one would use Lyft and Uber, and still not want to use the regular taxi companies.




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