True or false: Uber jacks up the price when your phone is low on battery (and desperate)?

Actually I would not doubt it at all I mean they had and probably still have things in the driver's phone that tells them when we're breaking too hard and when we are taking off too fast, how fast we're going and so forth. Unfortunately as a driver I can tell you that stuff doesn't work properly. When you hit speed bumps it will false read like you took off too fast or put on the brakes too fast. I mean this is not the first time I've heard of this they've actually been talking about this for years. And the fact that they have been working on an algorithm to know if a passenger is drunk or not simply by how they are holding their phone come on don't tell me you don't believe it can't be done. That's just like drivers used to get 75% of the fair after Uber took there booking fee. Now with upfront pricing Uber can charge the customer whatever they want to charge the customer and if the customer accepts so be it. The driver gets paid their percenta…

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Actually I would not doubt it at all I mean they had and probably still have things in the driver's phone that tells them when we're breaking too hard and when we are taking off too fast, how fast we're going and so forth. Unfortunately as a driver I can tell you that stuff doesn't work properly. When you hit speed bumps it will false read like you took off too fast or put on the brakes too fast. I mean this is not the first time I've heard of this they've actually been talking about this for years. And the fact that they have been working on an algorithm to know if a passenger is drunk or not simply by how they are holding their phone come on don't tell me you don't believe it can't be done. That's just like drivers used to get 75% of the fair after Uber took there booking fee. Now with upfront pricing Uber can charge the customer whatever they want to charge the customer and if the customer accepts so be it. The driver gets paid their percentage of the distance and time driven. If Uber charge of the customer for a longer route and a driver takes a shortcut guess what the driver only gets paid for the distance and time driven their percentage. Uber pockets all the rest. They grossly overcharged passengers to the point that passengers are starting to take Lyft instead of uber. Now don't think that Lyft is not doing this as well they're just not doing it as bad as Uber is doing it. But at the same time drivers don't like working for Lyft because Lyft does not charge a long pickup fee and they're always sending drivers 25 to 35 minutes away for a ride. And if the driver gets there and that ride happened to be a $3 ride that driver loses money. So drivers when it comes to Lyft are not accepting rides over the 10-minute threshold Uber has in place as a long pickup fee. I need some drivers logo 14 minutes but they won't go 15 minutes away. Drivers also don't like working for Lyft because we can't say we want to drive XL only and only get XL request. I mean if you have a larger vehicle and that's all you want to do then I think you should be allowed to only do that. But the way the system is set up you got to keep refusing the regular rides if you don't want them. And that's not right fortunately Uber will allow people to do excel only so in the evening time and on weekends and during events when it's really profitable it's going to be hard to get a Lyft request because drivers have liftoff because they're working for Uber doing XL only. But there are several things that actually need to be done with both companies. White one a livable wage for drivers during the winter time drivers have to drive hundreds of miles away and sleep in their car and take showers at Planet Fitness just to make a living because their Market is a tourist market for the summer and nobody comes here during the winter. And those themed markets that drivers are going to pet people that are actually coming to our market and sleeping in their cars and taking showers at Planet Fitness to make money during the summer because their town is a college town and the kids are gone for the summer. So yes the number one thing is a livable wage across the board I mean there has to be a standard sitting place that no matter what state you were in this is what you're going to get. That's like the drivers over in California they got those rate so low that I would not personally drive her neither company I mean the fuel is $4 a gallon how can you survive only making $0.60 a mile as a driver. If drivers were compensated fairly we would actually be able to pay federal income tax. But as it stands right now the rates are so low that everything is written off due to our mileage. all drivers are doing is trading the equity of their vehicle for money right now. when that vehicle breaks down if that driver was not smart enough to save their money that driver is out of work with no way to fix their vehicle. And when you got to think about feeding little Sammy and Josephine and your wife sitting at home or maybe there's a couple more kids in there how the hell are you going to save money for a rainy day to fix your car. You're just SOL and out of work looking for a job hoping to come up with the money to fix your car so you can start back doing this part-time and keep that job because that job saved you. And if you get a driver that has a brand new vehicle just know this they're not going to be working too long because 70,000 miles on a vehicle per year means that they will still be paying for that vehicle after it's dead. The best thing a driver can do is buy used vehicle that they're able to pay cash for and then go out and make their money. And if they get a chance go ahead and purchase a second vehicle to have sitting for backup just in case that vehicle breaks down. Yes I know I got off topic a little bit but that's the life of a driver. And most of us drivers we don't put anything past Uber. They will steal our tips they will charge the customer a higher upfront price just because they tipped their driver. And yes we have seen that happen a driver made this going from point A to point B and got a $10 tip the driver got that same customer going back 2.8 Uber charge that customer the same thing that they charge the first time including what the passenger paid as a tip without their passenger actually tipping the second time. It is actually best for you to tip your drivers in cash because Uber has their algorithm setup to where they see that a customer tipped which means and never mind that the customer is willing to pay more so therefore they charge them more. I had a woman one time that I watched give me a $20 tip and I only got $10. I had another guy then I watched give me a $5 tip and I did not even get a tip Uber will steal from their drivers and they will steal from the passengers. there is no shame in their game. And they are protected up front pricing and all these different amendments to the policy that they make drivers agree to just to go back online. If a customer makes a false complaint against a driver that driver gets deactivated with no way to provide for their family for at least Forty-Eight Hours the first time. And yes that has happened to me but you know what the next time it happens I'm going to take a hair sample test and go to the courthouse to press charges against the person who made the complaint sure I can sue that person for all my lost wages and defamation of character. Because I don't drink and I don't use drugs but I had a customer say I was impaired just to get a free ride because I would not allow them to bring an open container into my car and then changed the trip to an XL ride because they had five people.

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