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  5-star driver: Complementary WiFi?

  Saw this. Then I thought, who taking an Uber needs WiFi? We all have our phones. Piggybacking on the driver's …
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  How to receive 5 stars as an Uber driver

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  All my riders

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  Guy changes his name for every uber ride

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  Flyin' somewhere?

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  This is a serious question to drivers. I hear you routinely have 10~12 hour shifts. Do your butts get sore when you drive for so long? Could bedsores (I guess "buttsores" in this case) be a thing?

  I am sure the common answer is to take breaks and stretch.  How often would that be.  Do you guys …

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   5 years ago in  I Had A Flat Tire With A Passenger- My Car Was Out Of Service - Got No Response Nor Help From Uber - I Called For My Towing Service To Help - State Police Also Called For A TowTruck To Help- No Ubers Would Help- I Called My Wife To Take Passenger And Grandson Home - I Terminated Uber Trip - Wife Took Uber Riides Home- She Came Back And Got Me Forty Minutes Later- I Tipped Out TowTruck Drivers(2) and Went To Where They Ttok My Truck - Paid $216 For My Tow! What Should I Have Done And What Now?

  Wow, $216 for a tow.   ouch.

  Since you are on the road, you should have some road-side assistance service.  AAA is always the one to come to mind. It's about $90 a year, and it gives you free tow, battery jumps, tire changes, etc. 

  Some credit cards offer similar service albeit, unless you have an elevated privilege, you usually have to pay. You basically save you the trouble of not using Google MAps.

  My mistake is your gain.  You get a huge discount on car insurance with AAA. I cancelled AAA last year thinking I have other means, and then my car insurance premium had an adjustment for $66.  I think the AAA membership was $88, so the net is... $22 a year.

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   5 years ago in  Uber starting subscription service for 24.99

  They might as well as call this a coupon book because there are restrictions and you have to pay over a certain amount. It isn’t an all-you-can-eat model at all.

  This is just a way for these companies to hook the customer I to paying a minimum every month. It guarantees a revenue and investors love that 

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   5 years ago in  What's the lifespan of these e-scooters (i.e. Bird, Lime, Lyft scooters)? How long do they last? Not long apparently

  Thanks.

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   5 years ago in  What's the lifespan of these e-scooters (i.e. Bird, Lime, Lyft scooters)? How long do they last? Not long apparently

  Only 40 days? That's incredible. If I remember correctly, those scooters cost thousands of dollars.

  and they charge like $2 a ride.

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   5 years ago in  Twelve yr old commits suicide after taking an Uber. Is Uber at fault? Please share your thoughts.

  Look. This site foreshadowed this over a year ago.

  https://ride.guru/lounge/p/can-a-12-year-old-ride-an-uber-alone 

  The question was literally "

  Can a 12-year-old ride an Uber alone?

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   5 years ago in  Explaining the rating system

  Is this true that UberEats only offer Thumbs up and Thumbs down?

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   5 years ago in  12 hour work days: A day in the life an Uber rideshare driver

  This video says he sleeps in the "rideshare lot."  What lot are they talking about?  

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   5 years ago in  Uber no longer looks unstoppable. Slowing down [Quartz]

  The providing transparency must be a weird feeling to Uber. and scary.

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   5 years ago in  Uber and Lyft aren't the only thing in town: Two other car services using tech to provide rides

  My impression was that I am definitely open to using their services, but they just do not seem "on-demand" enough. I want little car icons swimming around on my phone, and I want to summon one within minutes.

  I did just look into them, and one good thing I learned is that while you do have to "book them in advance", they can be available as quickly as 1 hour.  That ain't bad.  For trips to the airport? I'd rather take that reliability.

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   5 years ago in  Driver cancelling on riders. Driver commenting "Don't hate the player, hate the game." Is this okay.

  No, it's not okay. There should be a bigger penalty for canceling on the riders. Are you being serious...

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   6 years ago in  How is it possible that Uber loses money? Besides marketing and customer support, what other expenses do they have?

  They are expanding their business.

  It's prefectly ok for a business to lose money when they are expanding.  They are investing in new staff, recruiting, local offices, marketing, etc.  Those cost a lot of money.  In the beginning those are all expenses with no profit.  

  Uber's ambition is still strong.  While they pulled out in some markets, they are opening up new locations al the time, even in the smaller cities around the world where the profitability may be suspect short-term.

  Let's give them a bit more credit.

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