Why are the elderly so afraid of Uber/Lyft?

[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?

Not all older people. I know some 20 year olds who are!

[Anonymous]

I've had way too many scary can rides. For Lyft/Uber at least there's a rating system. I've never had the thought that "this driver might kill me" in a rideshare ride. Cabs, that has happened more than once.

[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've had several unpleasant rides in ubers with drivers who seemed to be drunk or high. One drove like an insane person while we were trying to get to an airport. In my entire life I've only had one experience like this in a cab.

[Anonymous]

There’s no person to report a bad Uber to or bad uber eats to. The system is broken and complicated.

[Anonymous]

Cant you do that in the app?

[Anonymous]

My dad is 77 and in foreign cities (where he doesn't have his car) he's fine with Uber and Lyft.

[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 think I love you.

+1

[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 my hesitation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The App and Stranger Danger. They were raised with taxis and feel taxi drivers are vetted more, so they feel safer.

But Lyft allows women to get female drivers.

Have people had a good experience with that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Uber's safety reports have cited thousands of reports of sexual violence and misconduct.

😳

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.)

lol, do you mean you have 2 cars you park at home?

[Anonymous]

My middle America parents don't know how to use or trust a cab, let alone a cab they call with an app. Most Americans have never used a cab. Why would they start using uber?

[Anonymous]

My husband is 57 and hasn't figured out how to use the uber app.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

This is weird. I live in NYC and flag down cabs on the street. No "contacting a company." In that regard, Uber/Lyft are much more accountable.

[Anonymous]

I didn't understand it until I tried it. Here are some issues I see:

1.) They tell you where to meet them. If I'm in a new area and don't know streets well, I hate having to a random place and find the car. A cab comes to you.

2.) Stories in the news about attacks. Sure it's rare, but they remember it.

3.) Learning to use the app.