Uber faces an unlikely competitor in Brazil: the government’s taxi app, Taxi.Rio. With Uber prices and wait times going up, “there are many who are returning to taxis or even discovering them for the first time” according to the leader of the national taxi union. Traditional taxis clocked around 226,800,000 completed trips in 2021, compared to 136,080,000 in 2020.⁠ ⁠ ⁠Click the link in our bio to read the full story. Photo by Mauro Pimentel/AFP/Getty Images. ⁠⁠ ⁠ #brazil #taxi #uber #taxirio #taxiservice