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This is definitely wrong. In multiple conversations with Uber drivers, they prefer the longer trips as it makes them more money. They are able to not take long trips if they prefer (although they don't know the exact destination before accepting a trip, they are told if it is long one), and choose to do so.

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Also Uber allows the drivers to get customers wherever they are. After a long trip they can work that area for a while and maybe make their way back home. With a local taxi company if a driver is out of the area they serve then they have no customers.

Yep, this is very nice of Uber actually; I usually have to travel (for work) to a remote area where there is no Uber (and normal cabs are always full); if you pay attention, you will find an Uber driving back to London passing by and just take that one.

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