Why are the elderly so afraid of Uber/Lyft?

[Anonymous]

I generally don't use Uber because the entire concept annoys me-- another "technological improvement" that boils down to an app solving a problem that for many people didn't exist. I was a holdout at the beginning and now it hardly matters but why should I bother now? In fact, the one time I need to travel somewhere where a cab wasn't feasible (i needed to go 60 miles and did not want to rent a car), I downloaded the app and then had trouble finding an Uber driver who would take me. So whatever, i deleted the app and went back to using cabs to get to and from the airport.

My DH and kids use uber all the time and think I'm ridiculous, lol.

[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.

And it's often ex-cons, sex offenders, and/or undocumented migrants illegally sharing an account, so you really have no idea who's actually driving you! Or delivering your food, on similar apps.

[Anonymous]

Also never forget this horrifying local case
https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/suspect-high-on-pcp-shot-killed-uber-driver-and-passenger-in-oxon-hill-police/132266/?amp=1

[Anonymous]

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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.

And it's often ex-cons, sex offenders, and/or undocumented migrants illegally sharing an account, so you really have no idea who's actually driving you! Or delivering your food, on similar apps.

May five times out of hundreds have I had the same person In the photo deliver food.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m on a travel FB group and there are always older people asking how to get from A to B, and whenever Uber is proposed, they have 100,000,001 reasons why they won’t work for them, but they would be open to taking a cab.

One is currently asking if she should RENT A WHOLE CAR to drive from the airport to the cruise port, all in the same morning. Someone suggested Uber and they said no.

Why? And it can’t simply be that they are “scared of change”, can it?

Many older people, and good lord especially younger ones, are scared to hitchhike also. I don't get it.

I hitch-hiked a lot when I was younger. I wouldn't now, cause it's harder to get a ride due to the aforementioned reason, and the fact I'm older now and don't really like sleeping on a park bench anymore. Not as cool as it was when you are in your 20s.

[Anonymous]

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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.

And it's often ex-cons, sex offenders, and/or undocumented migrants illegally sharing an account, so you really have no idea who's actually driving you! Or delivering your food, on similar apps.

May five times out of hundreds have I had the same person In the photo deliver food.

I don't give a rat's a$$ who physically drives my food (not that I order that often) but it's food. Not a toddler.

[Anonymous]

Can drivers have their backgrounds checked by police and must show a licence with their photos and licence number. Lyft and Uber let anyone drive i will take a cab.

[Anonymous]

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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.

And it's often ex-cons, sex offenders, and/or undocumented migrants illegally sharing an account, so you really have no idea who's actually driving you! Or delivering your food, on similar apps.

May five times out of hundreds have I had the same person In the photo deliver food.

I don't give a rat's a$$ who physically drives my food (not that I order that often) but it's food. Not a toddler.

Idiot the point is, the person with the actual uber account is not the person picking you up. I.E. your uncle who just got out for murdering his gf in a no body case is now driving uber for his new gf. There’s no management watching him.

[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 is it. I am a female >40.

Our ENTIRE childhood it was drilled into our heads, DO NOT GET IN A CAR WITH A STRANGER. That is the Uber/Lyft model.

We even saw a movie in elementary school with little girls walking home from school, they accept a ride with a [male] stranger, and then next thing they are running through the woods (like you are them, running away from the stranger)... and then it jumps to seeing pieces of clothing in the woods/creek. No girls of course, but one can infer what happened. It was terrifying.

So yes, I have and use apps.

I have never used an Uber/Lyft by myself, without DH.

To me, that is getting in the car with a stranger.

Yes I have taken taxi rides, and for some reason, because it's a taxi, and their ID is in a little card in the back seat, and, you contacted a company and are on record, I have less fear of it being a fake ride with the sole purpose to s*x assault, death, etc.

[Anonymous]

Boomers and Genx are stupid and technology stunted and fearful probably lead paint

[Anonymous]

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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.

And it's often ex-cons, sex offenders, and/or undocumented migrants illegally sharing an account, so you really have no idea who's actually driving you! Or delivering your food, on similar apps.

May five times out of hundreds have I had the same person In the photo deliver food.

I don't give a rat's a$$ who physically drives my food (not that I order that often) but it's food. Not a toddler.

Idiot the point is, the person with the actual uber account is not the person picking you up. I.E. your uncle who just got out for murdering his gf in a no body case is now driving uber for his new gf. There’s no management watching him.

Still don't care.

[Anonymous]

The men who are saying it's nbd, are also the ones who choose the bear, not the man.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My older mother doesn't want to be brought home to an empty house by a stranger. It makes her feel vulnerable.

I usually have them drop me a block away.

My mom is 85 and lives in a flyover state on a street where houses are spread out and no street lights, only house lights. She couldn't risk being dropped off a block away. I'm so used to living in a densely populated city now that when I go home everything feels so empty. (But I digress.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Boomers and Genx are stupid and technology stunted and fearful probably lead paint

I miss eating paint chips. Lead oxide has a slightly sweet flavor that titanium dioxide can't duplicate.

[Anonymous]

I'm 50 and have never needed an Uber. If I travel, I take the subway or have a friend pick me up.

My mom is 77 and would never use an Uber. She's kind of shocked that others do.