Google Maps Removes Uber Integration (arstechnica.com)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Back in January 2017, Google and Uber teamed up to put a cool feature in Google Maps: You could search for, book, and pay for an Uber all directly from Google Maps. You didn't even need the Uber app installed. Now, 18 months later, the feature is dead. Google posted a new support page (first spotted by Android Police) that flatly states, "You can no longer book Uber rides directly in Google Maps."

The feature would have you search for a location in Google Maps and ask for directions like normal, but instead of choosing walking, driving, biking, or mass transit directions, a tab for ride-sharing would allow you to book a ride directly. The ride-sharing tab still exists, but instead of booking an Uber, it just gives you an estimate and offers to kick you out to the Uber app.

Comments

Intellectual honesty?

[raymorris]

I suspect people call Uber a taxi service because - it's a taxi service. "Ride sharing" is BS, and that's quite obvious.

I too slightly surprised at how many people acknowledge that plain and simple fact rather than pretending to believe some BS, happily surprised.

Even if a political agenda were ALL that mattered, of one had no care for the truth, you don't get intelligent people to support you and your agenda by telling them ridiculous lies.

If you want to end "big taxi", you can more effectively do so with an honest argument:
Some say unregulated taxis would cause big problems.
Uber is unregulated taxis.
Uber doesn't cause those problems.
Therefore, they are mistaken - unregulated taxis, like Uber, don't cause major problems.
Taxis should therefore be deregulated.