Why are the elderly so afraid of Uber/Lyft?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Think of this way:

Do you commit, OP, to learning all the new AI, 3D life-integrated tools when you're a senior?

Will you work the new-fangled methods with confidence and poise instead of feeling completely at sea? Like the one where you wave your finger just so in the air to order a cheeseburger and fries, or a plane ticket to Paris, or sign a reverse mortgage? Sorry, there's no pen and paper anymore. You'll need to make this little jabbing motion to confirm your payment, and the camera knows how to retrieve your money when it identifies your eyeball. Look in the right direction when you're jabbing your finger, otherwise the transaction won't go through! How can you not understand this??? Your kids and grandkids are so ashamed of you! What, you have cataracts and can't see the invisible screen hovering in front of you? You've lost all depth perception? Eww, that's such an old person thing. Everyone is so annoyed with you. Oh look, you ordered ten thousand dildos to your house by mistake. You should have controlled that finger tremor. Clearly demented. Off to the home with you.

I do because you don't just drop into this from the 19th century. Use evolves with tech. I used to use msn emails lol now I am all android not tethered to any device. I already am a senior.

[Anonymous]

I challenge the premise. Most 60, 70s yo I know can use apps and do use Uber.

[Anonymous]

Uber and lyft literally stole the taxi market OP you know this right??????

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How old are you? I’m 40 and hesitant with Ubers, I grew up taking cabs and both grandfathers drove cabs. Cabs were regulated.

Uber you are essentially trusting a random person who may have a significant criminal history to get you from point a to be without direct oversight and management.

Same.

Here's just one example: https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/01/us/felons-driving-for-uber-invs

I use it occasionally, and I don't love regular cabs either. But I feel a bit more comfortable with someone who's invested a bunch of their own money to get a taxi medallion, because I figure they have more skin in the game.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How old are you? I’m 40 and hesitant with Ubers, I grew up taking cabs and both grandfathers drove cabs. Cabs were regulated.

Uber you are essentially trusting a random person who may have a significant criminal history to get you from point a to be without direct oversight and management.

+1 this is about one of the dumbest posts I've seen here and that's saying a lot. Taxi drivers are vetted and have criminal background checks. Their taxi's are in better condition too as they're checked more often. I take a taxi. I don't use uber or lyft. Never have, never will.

[Anonymous]

I have had issues overseas with it. For instance I recently flew into another country where I don't speak the language. I ordered an uber. Then I start getting messages from the driver about how I need to walk 1/2 mile outside the airport and he'd meet me there. I was alone and not interested in this, plus I didn't purchase cell service for my short trip so I'd have no way to find him once I left the airport WIFI.

Uber drivers are often banned from airports/cruise ports/certain other populated areas to give more customers to taxi drivers. It's annoying.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How old are you? I’m 40 and hesitant with Ubers, I grew up taking cabs and both grandfathers drove cabs. Cabs were regulated.

Uber you are essentially trusting a random person who may have a significant criminal history to get you from point a to be without direct oversight and management.

I feel the exact opposite. I feel unsafe getting in sketchy taxis. Ubers are tracked and there's a record of who I am and where they're taking me. I also like knowing the cost up front. Even in DC I've had taxi drivers shake me down for more money, or refuse to drive across the bridge to VA even after they took my fare (it's been a decade for that last one though).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How old are you? I’m 40 and hesitant with Ubers, I grew up taking cabs and both grandfathers drove cabs. Cabs were regulated.

Uber you are essentially trusting a random person who may have a significant criminal history to get you from point a to be without direct oversight and management.

This. I'm 55. As a woman, I'm concerned with who I'm riding with, and I was never 100% comfy with cabbies either (especially in DC where in the 1990s, the official cabs were ratty and didn't reliably come on time when dispatched). In certain foreign countries I've worked in, women are advised never to take cabs alone. I do use the safety tracker feature that Uber and Lyft have but that's not very helpful if someone really wants to harm you on short notice on the spot.

My college kid just took an Uber where he was pretty sure the driver had been smoking weed or maybe allowing passengers to smoke a lot of weed in the car. My husband's been overcharged when an Uber driver got lost due to construction and had to take a long way around. In our area, a simple short ride can be about $15-20 to go a few miles.

In general, despite the convenience, I far prefer to avoid these services. (We do own our own 2 family cars that are garaged at our residence.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I challenge the premise. Most 60, 70s yo I know can use apps and do use Uber.

I think it would be difficult to quantify if most 60s/70s use it or not because reasonable data would be market, SES and regionally specific but I believe many of us know types who use it and types who cannot.

[Anonymous]

Curb app to summon cabs solves this problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You have to use an app, and most older people don't know how to.

Evidence of this? I find this hard to believe as someone with an agoraphobic mother who is terrified of technology but will learn to use it if she needs to (Spotify app, Amazon app, etc.) The Uber app is very user friendly.

You asked and this is my perspective based on elderly people I know. Some of you on here behave like you are in court...you're not. You're having a discussion!

[Anonymous]

I’ve never used Uber because:

1. I trust taxis more than I trust Uber.

2. While I don’t particularly mind using apps, I hate the app user agreements, which means I tend to avoid apps whenever I can. User agreements mean I have to spend hours reading something I never fully understand, but take as a given that I’m agreeing to them taking advantage of me any and all ways they can possibly think of - starting with using my phone resources to spy on me and sell that information to as many parties as they can.

Taking a taxi is a simple transaction in comparison. They take me where I want to go and I pay them. I don’t have to agree to giving up legal rights and privileges to do so. I may have to wait longer for a cab, but probably not as long as it would take me to read through the agreement, and then I have the reassurance that whoever comes is associated with the cab company. If I needed cabs regularly, I’d probably bite the bullet and sign up for Uber, but for once every few years, I’d much rather just call cabs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Think of this way:

Do you commit, OP, to learning all the new AI, 3D life-integrated tools when you're a senior?

Will you work the new-fangled methods with confidence and poise instead of feeling completely at sea? Like the one where you wave your finger just so in the air to order a cheeseburger and fries, or a plane ticket to Paris, or sign a reverse mortgage? Sorry, there's no pen and paper anymore. You'll need to make this little jabbing motion to confirm your payment, and the camera knows how to retrieve your money when it identifies your eyeball. Look in the right direction when you're jabbing your finger, otherwise the transaction won't go through! How can you not understand this??? Your kids and grandkids are so ashamed of you! What, you have cataracts and can't see the invisible screen hovering in front of you? You've lost all depth perception? Eww, that's such an old person thing. Everyone is so annoyed with you. Oh look, you ordered ten thousand dildos to your house by mistake. You should have controlled that finger tremor. Clearly demented. Off to the home with you.

I tell my college-aged kids that I’m waiting for the day I can beam my way into their living room, which is why I stay up on tech. I’m also married to a Luddite, who doesn’t understand my fear of killer robots.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Think of this way:

Do you commit, OP, to learning all the new AI, 3D life-integrated tools when you're a senior?

Will you work the new-fangled methods with confidence and poise instead of feeling completely at sea? Like the one where you wave your finger just so in the air to order a cheeseburger and fries, or a plane ticket to Paris, or sign a reverse mortgage? Sorry, there's no pen and paper anymore. You'll need to make this little jabbing motion to confirm your payment, and the camera knows how to retrieve your money when it identifies your eyeball. Look in the right direction when you're jabbing your finger, otherwise the transaction won't go through! How can you not understand this??? Your kids and grandkids are so ashamed of you! What, you have cataracts and can't see the invisible screen hovering in front of you? You've lost all depth perception? Eww, that's such an old person thing. Everyone is so annoyed with you. Oh look, you ordered ten thousand dildos to your house by mistake. You should have controlled that finger tremor. Clearly demented. Off to the home with you.

I do because you don't just drop into this from the 19th century. Use evolves with tech. I used to use msn emails lol now I am all android not tethered to any device. I already am a senior.

And clearly you don't realize a lot of seniors stopped keeping up with tech when they retired, or didn't use tech for their jobs anyway; and that many seniors have physical limitations that make staring at small screens and using fine motor skills, much harder than you think.

You lived all these years on earth and failed to develop empathy and understanding of others. That's your fault.

[Anonymous]

Hassle, safety, etc. I hate it.