Uber is destroying Yellow Cabs and you know what...it's a good thing.

Yellow cab drivers have always been nasty arrogant scumbags. They would almost always refuse to go to Brooklyn back in the day. Sometimes when I would go down to Clinton St to catch a cab to go downtown they would refuse to take me unless I was going to Manhattan. When you hail a yellow cab it was always a crap shoot. It could be dirty and smelly. He might not have air conditioning or even refuse to turn it on. I once got a guy who just got off a plane and didn't even have a license. The last cab driver we had fell asleep on the FDR drive and I had to slap him on the back of the head to wake him up.

The Post has an article about how the Yellow Cab companies are trying to destroy Uber because it is putting them out of business.

We have been using Uber lately and it is working out great. You just use the app on your phone and they come right to you and take you to where you have to go. They charge your card and email you a receipt. You don't have to fight with the cabbie if you want to use a card instead of cash. You don't have to worry about a tip since it is included. It is cut and dried. You pay a little more but you don't have to fight about the route where the cabbie might go roundabout to run up the tab.

Uber is not without faults. They don't wait for you if you are late which we always are in one way or another. They charge you ten bucks if you don't cancel the ride. Also it costs about $10 to $20 bucks more a ride. You are paying for convenience and a clean well kept car. Also you have a record of who drove you if there is a problem or left something in the cab. You can just call the guy.

The Yellow Cabs can't compete. Also the new Green Cabs can pick up street hails in the outer boroughs so they lose that business too. The Green Cabs are usually guys who drove car service so they know the boroughs and will go anywhere.

The Yellow Cab is going the route of the horse and buggy. Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of illegal immigrants.