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  Can I request a Lyft ride for house guests on my account if I am not accompanying them?

  You know, like we traditionally used to call taxis for our guests?  To be polite, of course.
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  With a Single, Insulting Tweet, Uber's CEO Just Destroyed Months of Hard Work

  Sarcastically mocking a group of top researchers isn't the best way to get your point across--even if you're right. Gotta …
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  Taxis are gone. Rental Cars are next. Business travelers take more rideshares than rental cars.

  Business travelers are now submitting more Uber and Lyft receipts than they are with rental cars.   We all know ZipCar …
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  Do famous people and celebrities use Uber with their actual real names?

  Looking at drivers.  You always hear about famous people taking Uber or Taxi rides, but when you see them, do …

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   5 years ago in  Can I drive and operate an Uber in multiple cities/states/territories?

  I am not sure if you are joking or not, but that does sound fantastic to me. Meeting people all over, make just enough to buy gas, food, and laundry.  Just see the country coast to coast.

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   6 years ago in  Can I request a female Uber driver? (I'm female and would feel more safe)

  So many female drivers on this forum. I don’t think this is representative of the entire rideshare industry. 

  Unless, of course, more females post online generally. No idea if that’s true. 

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   6 years ago in  Can I request a female Uber driver? (I'm female and would feel more safe)

  Well, women are still minorities as rideshare drivers.  They are trend-setters, and perhaps some may call them hippies. 

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   6 years ago in  I left my phone in an Uber, but the driver refuses to give it back. What do I do? Uber seems to ignore me.

  Umm, this is theft and criminal.  Report it to Uber first, and if he still doesn't comply, report him to the police.

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   6 years ago in  How can I specify a female driver?

  Is the panic button for drivers or passengers?  No, I am being serious.  I haven't seen it on my app. (I am a customer.)

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   6 years ago in  3 reasons why male Uber drivers make more than females

  Susan Fowler's post - x-Uber employee.  Everyone needs to read this:

  Reflecting On One Very, Very Strange Year At Uber

  At one point, they only had 3~4% women.  

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   6 years ago in  Lyft employee: “Hell yes. I definitely looked at my friends’ rider history and looked at what drivers said about them. I never got in trouble.”

  Very much reminds me of the infamous blog post by Susan Fowler on her life at Uber.

  Reflecting On One Very, Very Strange Year At Uber

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   6 years ago in  Which amenities do you provide for your passengers?

  Uber drivers are independent drivers, so they better be okay with it.  Uber has no say over what they do in their own cars.

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   6 years ago in  Taxi driver literally kills an Uber driver [Fox10]

  Yeah, so comforting. LOL. What other items can claim such benefits after your death?

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   6 years ago in  What are Long Pickup Fees by Uber? When does it apply?

  I would like to think Uber has a mechanism in place where they wouldn't match you up with someone from that far away. 

  Yes, some regions cover an area large enough that it can be more than 60 miles end to end, but I doubt Uber would match you up with any driver that just happens to be available.  

  I am trying to think where such thing is possible.  Maybe Jersey CIty or Cape Code near Boston at odd hours?  

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   6 years ago in  Should I give low ratings to Uber drivers who solicit tips?

  Don't stick it to the riders just because Uber cannot run a decent business.  There shouldn't have to be a cultural shift and a community subsidizing some unfortunate workers only because this private company doesn't know how to make a profit.

  Drivers or riders, you can't argue with this.

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   6 years ago in  Should I give low ratings to Uber drivers who solicit tips?

  YES. 

  I know drivers and riders both give low ratings to those people who are rude.  and I do consider soliciting tip as very rude.  The tip isn't something you ask for.  It's for a job well done.  You shouldn't ask for it, and you shouldn't expect it.  I can't believe this needs to be explained.

  I am sure this "soliciting" works in many cases, but the whole reason it works is because of the pressure being put on the rider.  I consider this horrendous, and the driver should be discouraged for doing such things.  and if it takes a low ratings, so be it.  (I mean, what is the rating for if it doesn't deter bad unwanted behevaiors?)

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   6 years ago in  is there a way to save my favorite locations in the uber lyft app?

  Oh, sorry. 

  BAsicslly the same thing. Instead of custom, it says Saved Places and Friends. 

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   6 years ago in  is there a way to save my favorite locations in the uber lyft app?

  Open the Lyft app. Click on Pickup Location (white bar at the bottom. You are then taken to a screen you can type an address, where you will see a bunch of shortcuts.  You will see from the top, Home, Office, "Add custom shortcut", then followed by recent searches.  Home and Office are presets you can set, and custom shortcuts is where you can add additional locations. 

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   6 years ago in  Seven things you need to know about Lyft moving into Canada

  That is a pretty big bombshell that they hide in ths article. Lyft has been around longer than Uber!

  "Lyft may be smaller than Uber, but it has been around longer:

  The Lyft app launched in 2012 (Uber, originally called UberCab, in 2009), but Lyft started life as a side project for Zimrides, a carpooling service founded in 2007 that leveraged Facebook and students for long-distance ride-sharing back when Uber was just a limousine-shaped gleam in the eye of Canadian co-founder Garrett Camp. It was Lyft's team that provided the first regulatory window in San Francisco to test ride-sharing, a practice that most suspected would be illegal for drivers without a taxi licence (according to journalist Brad Stone's excellent book on Uber's founding, The Upstarts). Lyft has had tipping as a core part of its service and to date has distributed more than $350-million in tips to drivers. Uber only introduced tipping in the summer of 2017 (in its first two months drivers earned $50-million). Lyft Line (a car-pooling offering) was introduced in 2014, just as Uber launched the competing Uber Pool option. Lyft is in close to 400 cities, in all 50 states, and says it is reachable by 95 per cent of the U.S. population. Uber is in more than 450 cities around the world."

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   6 years ago in  Is Uber Eats worth it for restaurants while paying 30% commissions?

  I run a restaurant and it is sooooo not worth it.  30% commissions is super high.  Are you kidding me?  Maybe for pasta dishes that already have good margin but for steaks and seafood, paying 30% will make us lose money for sure.

  Of course, restaurants are allowed to charge whateve we want, but then we'd have to jack up our prices, and I feel like that is bad for the business and worsen customer perception of the restaurant.  My vote goes for NO.

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   6 years ago in  Can I request a Lyft ride for house guests on my account if I am not accompanying them?

  Wow, you are polite indeed.  I do remember the old days of ordering cabs for others, but I don't rememer payng them for it. How generous of you.

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   6 years ago in  Flying Uber - Autonomous Flying Drones! They're here!

  I'd totally order one but my sidewalk is way too small for this thing to land.  

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   6 years ago in  "Robotaxi" or "AVs" sounds so lame. Can we come up with a cool name, please?

  Agreed.  I'm actually surprised other non-original ones haven't circulated like

  - AutoTaxi and AutoCab

  - Autonomous Taxis (ATs)

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   6 years ago in  Uber's $48B Valuation Explained - How Uber is faring and growing since 2017.

  Wait what?  Number of Rides per User is 50?  Once every week?  for EVERYONE?  That seems high.

  I guess it must consider only active users. I wonder how that is defined.

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