RIDEGURU
Driver Confessions
Memorable shifts. Horrible bosses. Passengers that are mean, drunk, etc.
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MEDIUM COOL (Only Really Old People Will Get The Title)
In order to keep my brain working while I drive in endless circles in midnight DC, I take black and ...
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The Importance of Staying Alert (The World Needs More 'LERTS)
At about 8 hours into a fairly typical Saturday night shift in downtown Washington - a shift that, of course, had ...
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I did the unheard of... What almost every driver says not to do.
Drove Saturday night in Philly & Lower Bucks. Rain was relentless, flooding everywhere, visibility awful. After seeing my 8th accident ...
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Pax Scared me so bad I cancelled - CREEPY
Hey I've been driving for 3 years and I have only had to cancel out of fear 3 times ...
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A Hack's Art
Here's what I did to pass the time between fares during my cab career. Most of these were done ...
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Mean, Spiteful, tazer-totin' woman (from Poke Salad Annie)
A Passenger from Heck Story I was finishing out Sunday night in my usual panic to make the 65-ride bonus ...
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Airports have been hit by the rise of Uber and Lyft [Economist]
https://www.economist.com/gulliver/2018/11/19/airports-have-been-hit-by-the-rise-of-uber-and-lyft
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Ambassadors from Other Cities: The Global Culture of Cab Drivers
* In 2003 the Public Chauffeur Training Institute was located at Harold Washington College on Lake Street downtown. This was the ...
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A Conversation with Dmitry Samarov—author of "Hack"
Watch this video filmmaker John McNaughton made shortly before I quit driving.
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Where Hack began
Before I wrote a book or even a blog entry about my cabbie days, I made a 'zine called Hack ...
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What do they not tell you about being a Uber/Lyft driver?
What they don’t tell you… Well for one thing, that I would have a constant crick in my neck ...
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Inside the secret Facebook of Uber drivers posting passenger photos without consent
This is just so very true. Drivers love taking pictures... “17 year old drunk girl puked in my car, ugggggggg ...
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Majestic Disorder
If you like fancy art/lifestyle/fashion magazines from foreign countries, this one from England has a nice six page ...
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Uber's Customer Service AI/Chatbot or Human? Conspiracy theories of a driver who lost their mind while dealing with Uber CS.
I have lots of downtime between 245am 515am. I clean my car and sit and have coffee at local Gas ...
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Lyft Driver Shot At By 2 Suspects in Detroit, MI [YouTube]
Have you guys seen this video? It's from last year, but I hadn't.
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Notes from Behind the Wheel
I never kept a notepad or recorded any of the conversations or scenes I witnessed in all my years behind ...
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Martin Scorsese's TAXI DRIVER and Me
This is an excerpt from Where To? When I began driving a cab in fall of 1993, Taxi Driver provided ...
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The Time I Gave Lou Reed a Cab Ride
I gave Lou Reed a cab ride. It wasn't a random street hail, Tony Fitzpatrick asked me to come ...
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Video Interview from My Last Day Driving a Cab
Chicago journalist Jack Silverstein shot this video interview on June 23rd, 2012, my last day driving a taxi.
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Backseat Confessional
Something about sitting in a taxi inspires people to unburden themselves. The stories often begin before their butts even hit ...