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the first sentence is a terrible take unfortunately, prius one of the most popular taxi and ridehailing cars ever, it's sully arund >50% of car supply in most western cities.

As usual, you are conflsting your singular consumer experience of Uber with the global business giant Uber.

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Oh, I don't disagree about taxis. Priuses are everywhere in that space, and for good reason. If you are going to make a living driving, you should probably drive one.

I do disagree on Ubers. I see very few Priuses, but there's a different explanation to that, that I missed. Casual drivers, people doing it as a side thing, or for beer money didn't optimize their car purchase for the purpose of driving a taxi. I suppose full-time drivers are more likely to drive one.

I have literally never once seen a Prius as a taxi in the US.

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