Comment by Spivak

100% my least favorite part of traveling in the pre-rideshare world. Has happened to me plenty of times.

If taxis just had upfront pricing and followed Google Maps it wouldn’t be a problem. I’d my happy to give them my business. I don’t really care too much about the app or whatever.

Like it could be super informal like $1/minute for whatever it says on Google Maps at the start and it would be fine.