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Patrick M (PattyMelt)
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Uber Car Bursts Into Flames
https://wgntv.com/2019/04/30/driver-charged-in-fatal-uber-crash-fled-in-separate-ride-share-car-police-say/ I am honestly not sure what makes me more angry about this story. Watch the video and read the … -
Diamond Nerf
Soooooo ... in predictable Uber fashion they announced a significant change to the UberPro Diamond perk that offers 6% more … -
Uber Destination Mode Paying 30% Less
Uber apparently has been taken over by Bernie Sanders. They don’t want us using destination mode anymore so instead of … -
Declining Long Distance Short Rides
Many drivers like myself drive for multiple companies to reduce downtime. Since Uber recently added trip duration to the ride …
I’m gonna side with the filthy mouth pervert rapper on this one. If the driver told her unaccompanied minors are not allowed to use the service and by golly not accepted the unaccompanied minor into the vehicle then we could be talking about The Avengers right now and not this story. Furthermore the driver should be ticketed for having a child in the car without a safety seat and deactivated by Lyft.
If someone tries to bring an open beer into my car and I see it before they get in I’m not supposed to let them in with the beer and then drive them to the police station. I am supposed to like, you know ..., tell them they can’t do that, duuuuh derp.
It sounds to me like the driver was frustrated probably having had their fair share of idiot passengers trying to do things they aren’t supposed to be trying to do. As a driver I feel like a damn adult daycare sometimes. That still doesn’t make it OK to break the rules/law in order to prove a passenger is breaking the rules/law.
If a passenger wanted to go rob a bank and use you as a getaway driver I would hope you have the common sense to not go along with it. At your trial I don’t think your strategy here is going to work in your defense. Yes Honor I knew I was being used as an accessory in a crime but I didn’t want her to be able to deny using my vehicle in this illegal manner that’s why I went along with it so there would be no doubt.
This is a pretty helpful list. One thing that should have made the list is driver satisfaction rating. As a rider I would want to know this. I’m not sure if this information is available or if it would even be believable these companies lie so much. I wouldn’t want to get in the car with a disgruntled driver that feels like a mistreated slave and a lot of them do.
This “news” article is uncorroborated. They literally quoted the reddit author as a source from her own hoax/story. Great journalism there. Well done. The Independent can’t even stick to their own Code of Ethics anymore:
The posts on Reddit that were pro-life were all censored. That should terrify pro-choice and pro-life people. 1st amendment going buh-bye. Personally I’m all for tyranny. Delusions of freedom are kind of annnoying.
Some years back a delivery company driver did something similar when he realized the shipment was containing lethal injection drugs to be used at the penitentiary. Well he didn’t leave them at the side of the road lol. If I recall he said he couldn’t find the place. They say, it’s bigger than Disney World and the only building in that zip code. Guy says I didn’t see it. The popos ended up picking it up from the warehouse themselves.
I know these are apples and oranges but this story reminds me of that. Devout people are kind of hit or miss when it comes to this sort of stuff. I respect the concept of their principles but there seem to be inconsistency issues.
I dunno she seems like a nice person after reading her many posts. Her hygiene advice for men was quite enjoyable to read. As far as her story tho hmmm I dunno.
She claimed in her post the driver was banned but I have it on good authority that Uber do not share outcomes except in two cases. The very common exception is after receiving a subpoena on their LE portal and the other being a big ‘ol widely reported news story usually involving a murder or sexual assault etc.
Even when it’s a huge story I have routinely seen Lyft and Uber maintain their privacy policy to the letter. By not doing so this driver could sue them.
I am quite open to the possibility that she felt similar to how I did after an abortion 18 years ago and maybe just needed to take her mind away from that crushing emotional state that follows. Or maybe she has a unibrow and that is what this is reeeeeally about.
Can’t fire someone that doesn’t work for you. You can suspend their account and investigate the incident. If Uber contacts the driver and said driver admits to recusing oneself from what some consider accessory to murder well adios lol. If the driver says WTF NO then Uber has to determine if passenger is potentially one of the millions of attention whoring head cases we share this planet with.
There are mentally unstable drivers and riders as I have encountered my fair share of each. I guesstimate it at 3:2 drivers to riders so reddit lady wins the battle but the war rages on.
I didn’t read the reddit did she record the incident? If she did yeah she should sue Uber. We had a Jew hater in Chicago boot an Israeli diplomat from his car on lower whacker of all places. That was recorded and on the news.
*Edit: Worth pointing out 5 days after her post she recommended Uber to another Reddit user. She cools off quicker than most. And even though her Reddit name is very obscene and offensive she seems like a sane person judging by her many posts. At one time she used multiple religious dating apps. I was surprised to see that based on her abortion stance. Wouldn’t your odds of fraternizing with pro-life people be substantially higher?
Meh it’s her life driver should shhhhhaddup but also she should have recorded it we all have a smartphone in 2019. I don’t care what you believe in you definitely do not want to live in a society where you are guilty until proven innocent.
There are many pros and cons to self driving cars. Safe to say this fits into the pros list. Unless of course the self driving car is very judgmental also. Think about it! Like what if you had a unibrow and the car notices and it stops and it says get out. That’s what I do to unibrow people.
Yeah Chicago was restored as well. I have heard rumors that what they were doing was not helping their case trying to fight off litigation requiring they classify their drivers as employees snd not independent contractors. Taking people’s money away and giving it to me and you is something you would do to your employees (Which you cannot legally do either but at least it makes more sense in theory) not your contractors.
It’s like if you hired a plumber and he did a bad job and you were like you know what I’m gonna pay my dentist part of what I owe you.
All I’m gonna say is I hope whoever came up with this at Uber lost their job and anyone who encouraged them along the way should definitely be written up.
Self driving taxis will be cool until they require medallions. They aren’t ride share vehicles they are taxis. Oh and when someone plants explosives in one and blows up a state capital that’ll be the end of that.
Amen LG congress needs to ban poor decision making
lol after what you described I think losing it sounds appropriate. I will say this, there are a lot of wannabe rideshare companies hoping they can take over the market. If one of these companies allowed the riders and drivers the option to have the ride recorded with video and audio via dash cam I’m pretty sure that company would do very well. You would weed out a lot of the problematic drivers and passengers reeeeeal fast or at least keep them on their best behavior.
I totally see many of your points. I’m sure it’s not like this universally but I will say in the Chicago market we definitely do have some bad apples behind the wheel. I talk with enough passengers regularly and I hear things that are very concerning. Not to mention I come across drivers all the time I mean like 50 times a day probably. They are at every car wash, gas station, restaurant, etc. I have literally never had a coherent conversation with one of these drivers.
The normal conversation starters should be really easy for example I try to talk about bonuses or recent updates to the apps. Stuff that we talk about all the time on this forums. I swear to God it’s like talking to a completely mindless vessel. You would think I’m asking them randomly to explain to me endoplasmic reticulum. This one guy looked like he was drooling and didn’t even notice.
This topic would probably make for its own separate article but simply put, we as drivers need to acknowledge that there are some serious screwballs out there driving for rideshare companies. It’s not all that different from other jobs we’ve worked in the past. I can’t think of a single place I’ve ever worked that didn’t have some big-time wackos working there.
We really don’t have many options for expressing our grievances as rideshare drivers. One option however that has worked for me in the past is reaching out to your state or county attorney generals office. You will be speaking with some low-level intern but they did wonders for me last year. Ever since that ordeal I have a perfect 5.0 rating with one of the rideshare companies. I don’t think they let riders rate me poorly anymore LOL after the AG office contacted them.
Short rides are not really the problem they just need to be within a reasonable distance. For me to drive 15 minutes to go pick someone up and drive them just a few blocks away is reprehensible. I’m not one of those carbon footprint paranoid schizophrenics but come on now even I have some standards.
I try to use a very basic model in my head when a ride request pops up. The number of minutes it is going to take me to get to the person compared to the number of minutes the ride duration estimates should be around 1:1 ratio or better meaning 1:>1.
If I am still in the process of fulfilling my quest promotion I count that as a free .25 on the right side of that ratio. Meaning I don’t mind driving a tiny bit further if I am still collecting my 55 trips or whatever anyways.
This is all pretty quick easy math you can do in your head in the seconds you have to decide. The really hard decision is figuring out which ones to decline during surcharges. I know it sounds silly declining a trip that is five minutes away with a 10 minute duration but if it takes you away from the surge area that could cost you a lot of money. I kind of feel like this is the best practical use of your declines but I was wondering what the other drivers think.
I was worried about that also in the beginning. It hasn’t been a problem however I don’t think my acceptance rate has dropped below 96% at any point.
I kind of drive all over Chicago and it’s burbs except for Kyle’s area lol That area sucks to do Uber. Not just moneywise but everybody has a black pick up truck and it’s a competitive game out there harassing Uber drivers on the road. Kind of like March madness except forget basketball and it’s all year long not just March.
Yeah I got nine dollars on Tuesday so I’m up now 15 1/2 dollars thanks to Bernie. I’m starting to feel like this destination mode socialism redistribution should be in the form of a musical. That would make it a lot more palatable for all.
In the musical you can make it so that Uber never designed and hard coded the destinations mode feature at all. A bunch of hacker drivers went all renegade and they hacked Uber. Instead of trying to steal customer credit card information or what have you they uploaded a worm called destination mode.
This worm allows drivers twice a day to aim towards or away from a metropolis. Somebody from the group of hacker drivers has second thoughts about it and attempts to reach out to the media. But before that driver could expose the scandal he winds up dead on a toilet just like Elvis. Frankly it’s a little surprising Kennedy didn’t also die on a toilet. It’s like whoever covers up these crimes tries a little bit too hard.
I’m telling you right here and right now if Renee Zellweger was in this musical I’m just going to say you know what take 90% of destination mode it’s worth it man, totally worth it.
UberPro unlocks it. It used to require diamond or platinum but they changed it recently to include gold. It really is a blessing I can’t tell you how many times they try to send me considerably far away for a laughably short trip.
Hi Kyle,
I believe the Bernie Sanders redistribution strategy was only in a test phase for Chicago spanning March 14 through the 18th. I assume they wanted to do a little experiment before potentially implementing it more broadly.
I have no doubt who specifically the company intended to target with this strategy. There are basically three types of drivers. Type A like me does this full-time usually six days a week. They could completely leave destination mode as is for me and it really wouldn’t harm anyone.
Type B is your driver that has a full-time office job and occasionally they probably supplement their morning and evening commute using destination mode. These drivers could also probably keep destination mode as is without upsetting the universe. This type of driver also puts in some hours in the evening and definitely on the weekends.
Type C was the intended target all along. This type of driver works a full-time job or perhaps takes care of a relative that lives far away and they supplement their commute with destination mode but aside from that they pretty much never touch the thing except for big moneymaking holidays.
In our Chicago market it is absolutely mind blowing how thousands of drivers literally just appear out of nowhere during surcharges or major holidays. They literally just magically spawn in the thousands. I think a lot of these types are sitting watching Netflix keeping an eye on the surcharges in or around where they live. Remember a lot of these drivers literally don’t even need the money they just like getting out of the house. It sounds crazy but it’s true.
If the company wants to do something proactive about destination mode because of the type C drivers then hot Diggity dog make it so that your destination mode works this week but then Sunday night Monday morning when the week ends if you haven’t done at least XX amount of rides it is disabled entirely for the following week. Should they complete XX amount of rides during that blackout week it immediately unlocks they don’t even have to wait for the following week to start.
Redistribution of wealth is stupid. I have $6 that someone else worked for last week. I am perfectly capable of going out and earning my own $6 but here we are.
Thanks for the $6 LG + others. Go Eagles!
Simply go into destination mode to check. They warn you first that you are entering charity mode.