Not in the same way however as the GP meant I don’t think. Most cabs get most of their fares from cruising and getting flagged down whereas Uber / lyft get zero of their fares that way. He’s saying the modern dispatch only method is more efficient and I suspect in this regard he’s absolutely right.
That’s how most cabs get their business in the US perhaps. I have only ever gotten cabs via booking (phone and app) or simply going to a taxi line at a hotel or airport. I never hailed a cruising taxi in Europe. I don’t even know how to tell an occupied one from a free one here (if it’s even possible). Getting a cab via an app I have done for ten years now.
To be clear, in my original comment the language I should have used instead of cruising was probably "idle time searching for a fare". Waiting in a hotel line, airport queue etc. are all inefficient and would fall under my definition of cruising.
Ah that's really interesting. Well that is a huge difference between the US and Europe I suppose. It really differentiates about how you think about cabs.
