Derrick Pierce (cheesehead)

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  Las Vegas Uber driver pummeled by passengers in attack caught on video

  https://www.foxnews.com/us/uber-driver-in-las-vegas-attacked-by-passengers-after-refusing-to-give-rideScary stuff... stay safe out there guys. They will catch these a-holes and they will be punished.Two young …
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  Pair escape as Uber plunges into the sea in Cannes

  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-45232272 Uber said the driver, who also escaped, was "no longer able" to use its app. Well that's good at …
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  Electric Scooter Charger Culture Is Out of Control [The Atlantic]

  I had no idea it was like this. I gotta start charging Birds. Over the course of the next few …
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  Lyft is now valued at over $15 B

  They're coming for you Uber... This year Lyft is on a pace to record $7.7 billion in gross bookings, the …
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  Waymo's fleet of self driving cars is about to get 100 times bigger

  There will soon be 62,000 additional self-driving minivans on the streets. The size of Waymo’s fleet of self-driving Chrysler Pacifica …
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  Boston taxi drivers fail to prove Uber is a monopolistic behemoth using unfair pricing to crush them, judge rules

  It's funny for the taxi industry to be complaining of a monopoly, when they've spent decades with one. The whole …
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  Didi passenger murdered by driver

  A Didi passenger was raped and murdered in China over the weekend. Didi has overhauled its service as a result, …
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  Didi IPO is coming

  This is gonna be a big one. https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/24/chinese-uber-rival-didi-chuxing-in-talks-to-launch-ipo-wsj.html
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  Fake Uber drivers are out to get you...?

  Check those license plate numbers, people. Every time. https://www.today.com/money/fake-uber-drivers-are-out-there-here-s-how-avoid-t126919
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  Uber to ban drivers from working over 12 hour straight

  After 12 hours of driving, drivers will be banned from accepting rides for the next six hours. https://nypost.com/2018/02/12/uber-to-ban-drivers-from-working-over-12-hours-straight/
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  Should it be legal to own your own self-driving car?

  ZipCar, Uber, and other rideshare companies want to make it illegal to own your own self-driving car in the city. …

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   6 years ago in  ALLERGIC REACTION TO TOBACCO SMOKE

  Driver here. Uber cars are technically supposed to be smoke-free. But like brownbear said, even if that rule was adhered to, you don't know the car's history. One thing you could do is call the driver after you request the ride (you can call via the app), and ask them, explaining that any previous smokers in the car at all would give you a bad reaction. Most drivers would be honest about it since they don't want a bad rating. They would rather you cancel the ride than get a 1 star rating.

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   6 years ago in  Crying Passengers? What do you do?

  Our job is to get them where they need to go safely. Not to be a therapist. If they initiate conversation I'll go along with it but otherwise I let them be.

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   6 years ago in  I only have an old flip phone and this phone has no browser, can I still req ...

  There is also a service called GoGoGrandparent which purports to do this for you. I have not tried it but you might want to look into it.

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   6 years ago in  A New Rideshare concept...

  But each rider has to download the app for that driver. Is that right? Won't some riders end up with dozens of apps on their phones? How will they keep them straight?

  Sorry. I must be misunderstanding something. Maybe I am not clear on what a progressive web app is. When a customer decides they want a ride, is there a single web page they go to, where they can access many drivers' web apps and see who is nearby?

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   6 years ago in  Uber app will be reminding you to buckle up!

  This is always tough. A lot of times people don't buckle up. I am not comfortable driving people around unbuckled, but I don't want to seem like a prude or get a bad rating for being insistent on it. So a lot of times I just don't say anything.

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   6 years ago in  A New Rideshare concept...

  I don't understand. So each driver could make their own app, and distribute that to riders somehow?

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   6 years ago in  Banned from charging Uber cleaning fee?

  I was curious so I looked it up. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_open-container_law

  It's weird. There is a federal law that basically says that states have to have a law that bans open containers in vehicles, including in the passenger area. BUT. Not all states are actually in compliance with that federal law. In other words not all states actually have this law that they are required to have. 39 states are in complete compliance, and 4 more do ban it, but not quite to the level of compliance with that federal law. So the upshot is there are still 17 states where you can presumably have an open container in a vehicle, legally.

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   6 years ago in  Banned from charging Uber cleaning fee?

  The most important part of all of this is the barf bag. That is key. Even the drunkest of the drunk can usually make it into a bag. Usually. Of course, hopefully they take it with them and don't just dump it under the seat for you to deal with later...

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   6 years ago in  Interesting - You can now rate your Uber driver mid trip

  But hopefully you can change it later if you want, as others have said!

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   6 years ago in  Interesting - You can now rate your Uber driver mid trip

  I can see the point. Rating after the trip is completed is a hassle, by that point I'm already moving on to the next thing.

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   6 years ago in  Waymo van involved in crash

  What the heck happened. that car came out of nowhere.

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   6 years ago in  There was a pile of dog poo in the back of my Uber this weekend. We didn't realize until we got out, and the driver charged us for it???

  Reminds me there was a time when i took an uber once, and smelled something fierce. Just really sour. The whole ride we were trying to figure out what it was. Couldn't find anything.

  We never figured it out, so we decided it had to be the driver who smelled. So foul. Did not give good rating.

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   6 years ago in  Is there any Uber discount for daily traveller?

  Never underestimate the cheapness of people.

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   6 years ago in  Didi IPO is coming

  Yeah what the heck is that about.

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   6 years ago in  Didi IPO is coming

  Not clear at this point, but it's a big move either way. 

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   6 years ago in  Didi IPO is coming

  Who cares about Uber? Seriously. Who cares? They can go eat a bag of ducks as far as I'm concerned. The drivers will still be US drivers even if they're working for Didi. Maybe they'll pay better. 

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   6 years ago in  What is UberWav?

  OMG, Uber's naming is so horrible. Seriously, how was anyone supposed to know that's what Wav stands for???

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   6 years ago in  Get ready to be forced to watch ads in your Uber

  If it makes rides cheaper than I would not have a problem with this. Maybe it could even be an option. Press a button in the app before your ride to choose ads or not. If you choose ads you get a hefty discount on the ride. Surely no one would argue against that.

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   6 years ago in  New York approves Uber and Lyft surcharges

  Read the article. Some other places do do it, but the charges are much lower. Well under a dollar.

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   6 years ago in  Lyft has been around longer than Uber. History Lesson.

  That's so weird. Uber started with black cars and seemed like this super innovative idea. Then a few years later they introduced Uber X and it was like whoa.

  
  Meanwhile Lyft had been doing it for years already. I guess it's true that history is written by the victor.

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   6 years ago in  ALLERGIC REACTION TO TOBACCO SMOKE

  Driver here. Uber cars are technically supposed to be smoke-free. But like brownbear said, even if that rule was adhered to, you don't know the car's history. One thing you could do is call the driver after you request the ride (you can call via the app), and ask them, explaining that any previous smokers in the car at all would give you a bad reaction. Most drivers would be honest about it since they don't want a bad rating. They would rather you cancel the ride than get a 1 star rating.

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