Singapore has a great, well regulated, honest taxi industry with ample taxis just about everywhere and a plethora of ways to order them from apps to call centres and taxi queues. Yet I find myself using UberX practically all the time except if there is literally a free taxi flashing green right in front of me (and even then I&#x27;ll hesitate).<p>Uber offers me these small things that stack up:
- automatic transaction
- google maps destination (one less thing to explain to the driver)
- happy drivers, always
- slightly higher air conditioning temperature by default (taxis like to blast you with cold air and you have to ask them to put it up)
- lesser chance of a bumpy driver
- a chance to meet and chat with a new person, who isn&#x27;t necessarily a professional taxi driver, and from that a fun life story or two<p>And that&#x27;s enough to make me switch and even evangelise the service.<p>Then I go abroad and I get google maps &quot;taxis&quot; with no need to take out foreign cash, and it&#x27;s warming somehow.