Why does my Uber driver end the ride when I’m only minutes away from my destination? And what about the many cancellations of already booked trips? We’ve got the answers to those questions, plus eight other facts about Uber you may not have noticed.
Expensive taxi fares prompted Garrett Camp and Travis Kalanick to launch the UberCab brand in 2009. Two years later, the Cab name was dropped, and since then Uber has taken passengers, packages and food from A to B in some 600 cities around the world — more than two billion trips in the first quarter alone.
In Austria, Uber was confronted with a lawsuit from the taxi company 40100 in 2018, then suspended its services for two days and then started a new placement procedure. In 2020, Uber won two lawsuits before the Supreme Court in Austria. Since then, Uber has been driving completely legally through the streets of Vienna. You probably already knew that. However, the following facts may be new and may also be of interest to you:
Source: Krone
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