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CurbDigger
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Posts by CurbDigger
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Epic Thread between Uber and an Angry Driver
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How is Uber valued at billions of dollars without being profitable? [NY Post]
I can't believe I used to read the Post for real. Is this a real article.Dear John: How is … -
Miami Uber Driver Raped A Female Passenger, Told Cops It Was A 'Perk' Of The Job
Oh, boy “Frederick Gaston, 51, admitted to assaulting and raping a 26-year-old woman who was drunk, vomiting and passing … -
Uber Support - Creepy Uber Drivers Edition (@Uber_Support)
Following @Uber_Support is priceless. So much gold. What's great is that these are REAL incidents. Not some made up jokes. … -
Certify retracts 2% rideshare tipping claim
Business expense softwarer, Certify, has retracted its previous claim that only 2% of business travelers tip ridehail drivers. This was … -
Uber’s Chief People Officer Liane Hornsey resigned following a probe into how she handled racial discrimination at the company.
Classic Uber move. Anonymous whistleblowers alleged that Hornsey, who had been in the role of top HR executive and spokesperson … -
What did you do prior to driving for Uber, Lyft, Ola, etc.?
This is a question for drivers. Before you started driving for one of the rideshare services, what did you do? … -
How come Didi has so many different names like Didi Kuaidi, Didi Dache and Didi Chuxing?
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Uber and bike-sharing JUMP - "Dockless, pedal-assist bikes"
Can we stop calling this thing an e-Bike? “We see the Uber app as moving from just being about car …
I despise seatbelts and I hate the government for enforcing them on us. It's the whole big brother thing. how dare they tell me how to live or how "risky" I should live my life. Can I eat Chicken McNuggets for the fives meals in a row? That's my perogative.
You must be disappointed often
I have no idea how much he is worth, but Jimmy Kimmel drove an Uber once...
Well, there's no doubt there's an expense involved. The question is how much would improved customer service translate to an increased revenue. (i.e. more tip)
Maybe you think they are cheap tippers, because you know how much they have and you have a false expectation that rich should tip more.
Pretty standard. I am in Boston, and I never see mints and such.
I've been doing Uber for a long time since the days before UberX, and I got used to getting water, newspaper, and mints. That was pretty much expected. When I went to Phoenix and took a few Uber rides, I also noticed, large cooler full of beverages in most UberBlack vehicles.
but not UberX.
Autonomous Vehicles has something definitely going for it, which is major cost savings for the industry and of which will get passed on to the consumers. It mentions Segway, but while that was a cool technology, it didn't replace anything else. There was always the traditional walking and bicycling. Uber and AVs are transportations that we all still need, and they make it much much cheaper and efficient.
they are small, so they probably just fall out of their pockets..
Yeah, they are absolutely awful. Do they make rules differently from city to city? Why are they so unsure about what they do? I appreciate the recenet attempt for 180 days to goodness (orwhatever), but I feel like I still learn everything from sites like these.
Oh, I didn't mean that literally, man. I am just amazed that you'd wait that long for your fare.
THREE HOURS IN QUEUE??? What the heck do drivers do?!!!
You can tip from the app...and if that option disappears, you can still do it from your email receipt. Right below the star ratings, there should be a tip button. There might have been a time limit on that, but maybe you can try?
Can we focus on ground-driving cars first? Didn't their AV just kill someone a few months ago? Now, they are gonna make them fly so it can crash into populated malls and stuff? Great.
Taxi services have existed for hundreds of years and Uber is the safest yet with background checks and an ability for everyone to check the location of those drivers. Don't be digging on a great improvement to an existing problem.
Wow. What a shot accross the bow?
I was just reading this other thread:
Why did my Uber driver take pictures of my girlfriend puking?
Nah, the worst is when the driver drives to your location, but hides around the corner, waits like 5 minutes, and then cancels claiming a NO-SHOW. Then you get charged like $5 or whatever as a (rider) cancellation fee.
This no-show cancellation happened to me twice. One may have been an innocent mistake as I live in an apartment complex with multiple buildings. The guy was answering my texts too. I think he just gave up on me. The other time? not a peep from my driver. I never cancelled but he did, and I got dinged with a cancellation. Whaa.....
But it's well within the rider's right to do that, right? Take a trip to get out of the surge area, and call another Uber. Sure, it's a bit of a hassel and you have to weigh the cost of a new initial rate and booking fee, but I think some riders already do that. It's smart.
As a driver, if you don't like the non-surge, then just ignore the request. That'd be awkward if the person is already in the car though.
Who's this new player that is apparently threatening Didi? How is it possible that a small challenger can be valuated at $60B and force Didi to make such a strategic move (to raise more money)?
"Meituan-Dianping, an online services platform that counts Tencent Holdings Ltd. as a backer, rolled out ride-sharing services in Shanghai in March in a direct challenge to Didi. Meituan-Dianping’s IPO could value the company at around $60 billion, according to a person familiar with the matter, and is expected to list on exchanges in Hong Kong and mainland China."