Sergio Avedian (Uberserge)
Ride Apprentice from Los Angeles, CA
Blogger, Podcaster, Active Rideshare Driver/Coach
1300 Rider DriverActive Uber/Lyft driver in Los Angeles, contributing writer for Rideguru and RSG (The Rideshare Guy), podcaster, rideshare driver coach, independent consultant to rideshare and tech companies.
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Dashboard Cameras: The Ultimate Guide for Both Drivers and Riders
All explained in this article! https://ride.guru/content/newsroom/dashboard-cameras-the-ultimate-guide-for-both-drivers-and-riders -
Is the Scooter Era Ending? Was it all just a Fad?
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Step by Step Instructions on Accepting your First Trip as a New Uber Driver and General App Tutorial 2020
It is all explained in this article https://ride.guru/content/newsroom/step-by-step-instructions-on-accepting-your-first-trip-as-a-new-uber-driver-and-general-app-tutorial-2020 -
Step by Step Instructions on Accepting your First Trip as a New Lyft Driver and General App Tutorial 2020
It is all explained in this article https://ride.guru/content/newsroom/step-by-step-instructions-on-accepting-your-first-trip-as-a-new-lyft-driver-and-general-app-tutorial-2020 -
Is Uber Just A Payment Collection Agency For Drivers Now? Must Read For All Drivers & Passengers
Looks like drivers are Uber's customers and passengers are drivers' cutomers https://ride.guru/content/newsroom/is-uber-just-a-payment-collection-agency-for-drivers-now-must-read-for-all-drivers-passengers -
Step by step instrucitons for Uber & Lyft car inspections!
It is all explained in this in this article https://ride.guru/content/newsroom/step-by-step-guide-to-get-an-uber-lyft-car-inspection -
How to track your tax deductible miles for Rideshare driving? Potential tax deduction missed by Drivers!
I have explained it all in this in depth article https://ride.guru/content/newsroom/how-to-track-tax-deductible-mileage-for-uber-lyft-drivers -
Is driving for Uber & Lyft full of Flexibility and Freedom? Not so fast!
My in depth article about the plight of NY drivers https://ride.guru/content/newsroom/is-driving-for-uber-lyft-really-full-of-freedom-not-in-new-york -
Uber is fighting AB5 in CA with a new PAA (Platform Access Agreement)
Drivers are Uber customers, passengers are drivers' customers. Uber charges drivers a service fee for accesing its technology platform.https://ride.guru/content/newsroom/is-uber-just-a-payment-collection-agency-for-drivers-now-must-read-for-all-drivers-passengers -
As per Uber, passengers are driver's customer and drivers are Uber's customers
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Uber claims to be just a payment processing agency for the driver and passenger
https://ride.guru/content/newsroom/is-uber-just-a-payment-collection-agency-for-drivers-now-must-read-for-all-drivers-passengers -
I must be in a time machine, taking me back to the starting days of Uber albeit at much lower rates!
https://ride.guru/content/newsroom/uber-is-making-big-changes-in-california-for-drivers https://ride.guru/content/newsroom/uber-is-making-big-changes-in-california-for-drivers -
I got skunked by the Uber Algorithm! Is over saturation the problem or does Uber put drivers in Time Outs due to declining too many rides?
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Driving Uber's Way vs. Driving My Way
Do you take every ping Uber and Lyft send you? Are you the slave of their algorithms?https://therideshareguy.com/driving-ubers-way-vs-driving-my-way/ -
Now Uber is letting some CA drivers set their rate at small airports
All the changes over the past couple of months, definitely due to AB5. Will all these changes spread throughout the … -
Is the Scooter craze coming to a crashing halt?
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Dashboard cameras: Ultimate guide for rideshare drivers and passengersrs
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Do you think the changes implemented in CA by Uber should go nationwide?
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Uber commissions capped at 25%, no upfront pricing, exact destination on each trip before accepting a ride, old surge multiplier is back, no AR restrictions etc.
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Uber is Making Big Changes in California for Drivers! Is all this due to CA AB5?
I welcome these changes over the past month culminating with commission caps at 25%, showing destination, bringing the old surge …
I always believed in quality over quality since I started driving, I rather do one rode for 30 them 3 rides for 30 in an hour. Why is everyone buying this crap uber is selling, the busier the driver is the more money they make, it's B.S. that would the case id rates were 1.25 a mile and 35 cents a minute on X, not for 60/21
I agree with you 100%. Uber and Lyft and all the others are in continuous fantasy land, they will have video cameras in the car recording constantly for these types of occurrences. Here's a picture for you, a couple is getting it in, car drives them directly to a motel. 😆 Or locks the doors and takes them to a police station. 😆 They don't own their cars now, they'll find out what it takes.
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Whats uber and Lyft? Cab with an app
I was on Wall Street for 17 years. If you bought Lyft at 50, yes you're doing well. But the true measure of a new IPO's success is what price they came public at at where are they trading now, highs amd lies are not good metrics. Lyft came public at 72, went all the way up to 88 the first day then crashed to 47 now it's around 64, so from 72, it's down about 11%, UBER came public at 45 went down to 37 now it's at 43, so down about 5%.
What are your uber x and regular Lyft rates in Chicago, I'm assuming you have the flat rate surge?
Uber has surge multiplier pricing for the driver in Los Angeles, most cities are on flat rate surge for drivers. There's definitely surge pricing for the pax like before but they won't tell you what the multiplier is like before, they'll just tell the passenger it's busy for up to 1.8x and very busy for everything above that.
They will charge the pax 2x let's say and pay the driver a small bonus like $3 on base fare and keep everything else for themselves.
That's because I think tipping was part of the app from its inception, pax are used to it. Uber started middle of 2017 after 5 years of no tipping policy.
Actually Lyft stock is not doing well, it came public at 72 now it's 64, they're both going to get halved within a year of AB5 passes and they still can't produce profits.
That's when the barriers to entry shows up, in the tech side it's very easy to do, but due to everyone living in a subsidized fantasy land, the new company has to have very deep pockets to combat U/L. These two unethical, shady outfits are ready to be disrupted themselves.
Call or text me at eightoneeightsixfivezerotwothreethreefour
Great suggestions, thank you.
I'm assuming you're a veteran driver who's seen the good, the bad and now the ugly. Would you switch to drive for a company that offers you the things suggested? That may be stating the obvious.
Certainly, better yet text or call me at eightoneeightsixfivezerotwothreethreefour, the OP posted a very old article, FYI
Ok, could it be that in order for Uber and Lyft to actually make money, they may have to do so? As of now, no one is making a profit with rideshare.
😆 comes with free foot massage? Passengers are used to live in a subsidized fantasy land.
probably not legal but smart, liability is on tesla when they run someone over. Plus, no Tesla has level 5 capabilities, it'll be a disaster
In the old days, it used to be easy to pull it off sonce there weren't so many cars, nowadays it's almost impossible, read the article I wrote in the Rideguru newsroom.
Do you would ride in an SDC for the same price of a human driven car? You may have to wait about a decade for it.
In most cities, UBER and Lyft have flat rate surge and PPZ. Both systems allow U/L to charge the pax let's say 200% more and pay the driver a tiny bonus. In the old days, U/L used to just screw the driver, now they screw the passenger and the driver.
They monitor each other constantly but when it's truly surging due to high demand, both platforms differ wildly in pricing. When it's base, it's easier to price rides according to the competitor's data