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Comment by JohnFen

2 years ago

I've never experienced a "broken" machine in a cab.

How many big city taxis did you ride before 2013 or so? They cleaned up their act once they got competition.

  • Quite a few, actually.

    • Same. Which area? For me it was Pittsburgh, New York, and Rome. The problem was absolutely endemic in all three, and I saw it pretty regularly at conferences and on vacations, too.

I encountered "broken" machines all the time before ~2010, probably more often than working machines, in major US cities.