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outlandish
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Posts by outlandish
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DC taxi rule overhaul could cut some regulations in age of Uber, Lyft
Interesting, but it's about seven years too late...https://wtop.com/dc-transit/2020/01/d-c-taxi-rule-overhaul-could-cut-some-regulations-in-age-of-uber-lyft/ -
Don't Cross the Line
I hope we get to see some stats as to how the strike actually went today. I wonder how much … -
Eighty-seven, and left by the side of the road by Uber [Boston Globe]
Not cool, not cool at all. Basic human decency comes into play here as a driver. She and her husband … -
CNN investigation: 103 Uber drivers accused of sexual assault or abuse
Not good. Not good for Uber, and certainly not good for these poor victims. http://money.cnn.com/2018/04/30/technology/uber-driver-sexual-assault/index.html -
'I started pounding on the windows' — Uber passenger describes attempted Denver kidnapping
Scary story. Also kind of strange. I wonder what the driver actually had planned. I mean, you don't normally tell … -
Deadly Uber crash due to medical emergency?
Does anyone know anything more about this? Heart attack or what? https://www.ajc.com/news/local/deadly-uber-crash-leaves-injured-passenger-mother-with-questions/dFTXohYdohCBkBFURzPMUK/
Couldn't tell ya, I block all those memories out... 😁 😎
"Price protection on every ride". So it limits how much surge you can get?
Hey that's a great idea. I mean, all the kids are playing pokemon already, might as well put them in cars to drive people around...
All. The. Time. It seems to me most riders still don't know they are supposed to tip now. Uber made such a big deal of not tipping at the beginning and it stuck.
It's this 100%. And it's completely intentional. Lyft and Uber know exactly what they are doing with strategies like this.
"glitch"!?!?! LOL. Come on Uber. This is a huge problem too because at the time of the ride, the pax has no recourse. Their card is gonna get charged and they are stuck arguing it out with Uber later, if they can even talk to someone.
I'll be out of a job but yeah at least I won't have to listen to drunk people blab on about whatever the latest drama with their friend is.
When they are blabbing on the phone loudly as they get in, and don't even acknowledge me. You know it's gonna be one of "those" rides then. I don't really care if someone is on the phone but some people are just so damn loud and annoying.
Medicaid is interesting. Definitely a boost there, though I can't see why Lyft would get it and not Uber. Nevertheless as long as both companies are losing money on every ride I can't see why I should buy them. And when is that gridlock realistically going to end?
😂 Seriously. They think we are mind readers.
Yeah. He's overreacting a little imo... I don't know if this law is really going to change anything but like... dude, chill out. If like he says the NYC drivers stop going to NJ as a result, well, that's good for the NJ drivers then.
Not for upholstery, but for the plastic parts of the car -- Goo Gone works really well for some things. Worth having in the arsenal. I once had a mom and her kid in the back. The kid was coloring and decided to draw on the door. Goo Gone was the only thing that I found that gets crayon off easily.
I don't know, I look at some of these videos of idiots behind the wheel, and think I want no part in driving on a road with other human drivers... Some people just do incredibly stupid things behind the wheel.
Not gonna lie that looks awesome. I wonder how much ride in that thing costs normally.
It all comes down to cities screwing the medallion system up. They should never have allowed a scarce commodity like taxi medallions to be transferable. Doing so led to a secondary market with ridiculous values, so of course greed comes into play and predatory practices like this pop up all over the place.
There is a similar problem with liquor licenses in a lot of cities. Restaurants have to buy them on a secondary market for hundreds of thousands of dollars because the city only allows X licenses. So they have to take out loans to do it. Then one day the city decides to stop limiting liquor licenses, or increase the pool of licenses. Now the value of a license plummets, and all those restaurants that took out loans for their liquor license are under water.
Oh I see. You mean Uber would charge it. I misunderstood you.
But that is basically the same as Uber just raising their fares. They won't do it because they are in competition with Lyft. Frankly if they are going to charge more for some reason, they are going to just pocket it themselves. They are public now and shareholders will demand that drivers get paid just enough to keep them and no more. Sorry to be dark but that's how I see it.
I wouldn't mind being a butler. I mean, as long as the boss is not a complete a-hole it might be kind of fun. Get dressed up every day, snobbily turn away visitors at the front door, release the hounds, etc. Good gig.
Ok... how exactly do you plan to enact this? Just tell pax they owe you another 20% at the end of the ride? Some passenger will complain and you'll get fired. Calling it.
With all the data Uber has they could do this anywhere in the world. Would be cool to see different cities.
I'm not sure how far this can really extend though. All full time workers? I doubt it. Uber kind of hit a jackpot, by creating a gig worker economy out of skills that almost everyone has already (driving). But a lot of other full time jobs just won't fit into the gig worker economy. I wouldn't want to rely on whatever firefighters happen to be available when my house is burning down! And of course many higher skilled white collar jobs require a lot of training and rely heavily on tribal knowledge that can take years to build up. And, there is a lot of variance in the quality of employees. Companies want to keep the good ones, so they offer full time jobs with benefits. There is already the concept of contractors in white collar jobs, who are typically cheaper for a company than a full time employee. Yet most employees are still full time.