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“We want to be a middle man”
They say that during the California gold rush, the people who got richest were the shovel salesmen
Pretty sure it was the people who had the money for heavy equipment and labor that could get the deep gold the prospectors found, but couldn’t reach.
Pretty sure it was the few people who controlled the amount of supply to the people who wanted the gold after taking the gold from the miners
That came later.
Nah
They are fools, the richest were the people who bought the mines.
If this meant that Uber was actually investing in the U.S. passenger rail system, then I’d cheer them on. It doesn’t, though, so Uber can continue to suck my ass.
only taxi app that works with Von’s tho
Aren’t trains known to be communism in the USA?
You mean commutism?
Ride sharing and micromobility services are great and the future. It is more sustainable and convenient.
I don’t get why some people are mad about it.
Uber is an awful company, but rideshare as a whole is beneficial in the terms of getting less cars sold and used.
There is some attempt somewhere in the US to do a coop out of Uber, where there is no middleman public company and drivers get all the fares. I hope that works out.
Because the costs don’t match the salaries.
I can’t help but imagine actually using Uber to call for a train and when it arrives, it’s just some old-timey blind guy on one of those old-timey hand-carts singing prophetic songs about what your day is gonna be like.
Fuck gig economy reform, intimidate your way to disability justice in the workplace via ominous clairvoyance and getting absolutely fucking yoked enough to suplex a train like it’s Final Fantasy VI
To be fair, it was a ghost train. Not being corporeal might make it incredibly lightweight.
You shall see a… cow… on the roof of a cotton house.
Imagine if this actually worked like the main rideshare function. You order a ride in Roanoke and N&W 611 just rolls up to your doorstep.
Brings a new visual to the phrase “choo choo motherfucker”
Mephi is hungry
How does that work? Like you put out a request and a conductor drives a locomotive to pick you up?
I’m pretty sure you can just buy train tickets on Uber or some shit
Maybe automatically chain together and Uber and a train or something
I figured out what you meant but my initial mental image for “automatically chain together” was a long line of Hondas and Teslas connected by short tow straps.
I’m gonna play extreme geoguesser here, but is that bridge at Battersea park road/Queenstown road bridge, right near Battersea Park Station?
I’m gonna guess the side of Waterloo station
Correct!
51.503, -0.111
Bingpot! I think it was the glass on the left with the blue lines on it that did it for me, that’s by the Bakerloo/Jubilee escalators isn’t it?
Ooooh you’re good. Nice score!
Fuck cars and fuck Uber but this sounds like a reaction to Lyft being integrated in the (excellent) Transit app
Cars are useful and convenient. That is partially why they are so popular.
If you want less cars in your city car sharing services and micro mobility (scooters, ebikes) are your friend.
I share a couple cars with a few hundred neighbours. Saves a bunch of parking spaces.
“useful and convenient”…
How about deadly, destructive, and isolating?
Or we could just ignore the corrupt alliance of industry colluding to eliminate other transportation options and wax poetic about the Free Market and Rugged Individualism, right?
This appears to have been available since at least October last year - you can buy train tickets through the Uber app. Thread from another forum here.
They have e bikes on uber too, it’s actually a pretty neat system.
Best I can figure is the train companies are using Uber as a system to sell tickets, instead of or in addition to their own system. Can anyone comment?
