I am a DC uberX driver since 2013 and have SEEN IT ALL...so please, AMA
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Anonymous
| Bump... Good question. |
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I'll be getting my Tesla X in a few months.
As a SAHM with older kids, should I drive for Uber? How much could I expect per hour driving such an unusual car? |
Anonymous
so do you enable the spotify app for your riders? i love this feature as a rider but as a driver might be annonying. i don't like when drivers try to guess my musical taste based on seeing me. i know i look like i might like trap music but um.... no. |
Anonymous
i see lots of older business men/women still using cabs a lot. i sometimes still do if in the rain. don't want to hide for cover and wait for uber and rainy days in dc are almost always surging. |
Anonymous
I wanted to ask Uber driver this too. But the best drivers I know are not women. Hmmm. |
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OP, if you are still out there - what will you do if Uber ends surge pricing?
http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/05/03/476513775/uber-plans-to-kill-surge-pricing-though-drivers-say-it-makes-job-worth-it?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20160503 |
Anonymous
| Hey uber guy, what do you think the tip controversy? |
Anonymous
Not OP, but I was just advised not to take Uber in another city with lots of crime; locals said the cabs are much safer for a lone woman at this time. I was surprised! |
Anonymous
Hi everyone, I'm back! I'm just now recovering from tax season, but uberX meanwhile has been great. The incessant rain and metro's constant fuck-ups has increased demand and uber is tossing out bonuses left and right. I'm preparing myself to be a true night owl seven days a week from 11pm to 3am once metro starts closing down early in June. And hopefully getting four hours of sleep on each end. I have big things brewing in my life but for the next foreseeable future I'm going to milk uber for all it's worth. In the next year if your section of metro is shut down, expect to see me around, lol. Now to the question...no, you're not wrong at all thinking that. In 20 years, personal car ownership will be non-existent inside metropolitan cities. Everyone will dial an autonomous car up on their phone and it'll come and get them then go wherever they please. The perk of living in the city is not having to own a car. With a (hopefully) improved metro along with a streamlined and eventually autonomous Uber/Lyft/Google/Ford/whatever, everyone's lives will be a lot easier...in theory at least. Lots of hurdles to get there though. EVERYONE under 50 uses uber/lyft. As more and more boomers retire away from DC and other cities, taxis will probably finally die off. Lastly, cabbies are hurting for money...it's no longer the cherished gig it once was for someone completely unskilled. Getting squeezed out on money will force cabbies out of the taxi game eventually. At this point all the taxi companies in America combined can't compete with uber. |
Anonymous
You're always safer in an uber than in a taxi...ALWAYS. A taxi ride is a ride with a stranger. An uberX ride is a ride with a stranger too, but you know that confirmed driver has had a background check, the ride is tracked from-to-end, and the payment is cashless. Sorry to go uber propaganda there, but I've not personally taken a cab in years and thousands of others haven't either for all those same reasons. Would you put your mom in a nice Towncar uber or a typical DC cab? And there's no harm in screening your driver...if you don't like the looks of your driver in the profile photo, cancel the pick-up and request again. |
Anonymous
Yep, older folks who have probably lived in DC a long time and know the deal with DC taxis are still the core hangers-on. I get it, no one likes change, but time marches on. Tourists too, good cabbies know how to cherry-pick those. |
Anonymous
No, I could offer Spotify but I don't. I do always offer the auxiliary cord if someone asks. It's SOOOO much simpler, easier to control, and Spotify is a crock of shit because it actually eats data, so hell no. |
Anonymous
You are crazy and have more money than brains. Go volunteer at your kids' school or a church daycare. |
Anonymous
Yikes! This is actually believable because some drivers are so desperate to keep their job that they will do ANYTHING the rider requests of them. The craziest thing that's been happening lately has been drivers getting their cars jacked while leaving the car running and making an uberEATS delivery, then their car goes on a joyride. I'm SOOOO glad I didn't sign up for that bullshit. I'd imagine making pick-ups and deliveries of food to apartment buildings all over DC and Arlington has to be the most frustrating thing ever. |
Anonymous
Great idea, but NO ONE is competing with uber unless Google or Ford/GM want to. Also, I checked the news...Chariot for Women has undergone a name change in the past month to SafeHer. They still haven't launched a rider app yet. Biggest problem? You can't operate a public utility, like a rideshare service, that hires only women as drivers. |