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The standardisation is for Private Hire, not Hackney. You will be fine.

The topography test for private hire in London is a joke (i.e. the first question is to draw and name the four points of the compass).

If PH here were metered, and you had a rubbish driver who gets lost, and goes round in circles, you would be overcharged.

In the case of Uber, driver's have a rating system, where passengers can rate the driver out of 5 stars after the ride (something similar to eBay maybe), if the driver gets lost you would give them a low rating and eventually they'll soon get kicked off Uber (they have a cut off point, I believe).

After an Uber ride, you get e-mailed a receipt showing how the fare was calculated (base fare + distance + time), and a map (Google, naturally), showing the route the driver took. If you think the route wasn't a reasonably direct one, you can ask Uber for a fare review.

I have never had a problem with the route taken when I use them.

That's all very interesting, but, I fail to see what you have written having any relevance to what I wrote

I can. you asked what the problem was with PH having meters and the reply was that if they have meters and a rubbish driver, the customer would be overcharged. With a set price, itdoesn't matter so much if the driver goes round in circles, the customer doesn't get charged any more.

Same applies if you have a rubbish taxi driver. Private hire may not have meters but most charge by the mile travelled

"Our mission is to keep London moving in the safest, most efficient way possible and we will continue to put consumer choice and safety, and driver opportunity, first." I thought it was to make more money fur Uber.

Maybe I have it wrong but I was always under the impression that the private hire operator who takes the booking gave the price and the driver was not allowed to change this. I was under the impression that Private Hire was all about fixed fares agreed before the start of a journey.

That may be the case in London, if the punter asks, but not elsewhere.

Many areas have PH that run at the hackney meter rate with, shock horror, meters.

I will have to read our council policy again because I am sure it states that for private hire, the fare must be agreed before the start of the journey.

I can just see Delta giving a price to every person that rings them, me thinks not

"Our mission is to keep London moving in the safest, most efficient way possible and we will continue to put consumer choice and safety, and driver opportunity, first." I thought it was to make more money fur Uber.

What happens if a customer asks for a price?