Once rivals, now allies! Uber and taxis are close to solidifying a new partnership in San Francisco that will allow riders to order either one on the same app.
But not all drivers agree with him.
“Especially just coming out of this brutal pandemic, we need this business so bad,” said Mwaffaq Mustafa, operations manager at Flywheel. “The taxi industry went down almost to the ground as we are trying as owners as workers to lift it up a little bit.”San Francisco has been trying it out as a pilot program since September.“We can help taxis by bringing in more business, and riders by adding more transportation choices,” said Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi.
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