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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Across a few of your responses, you've said that traits of a better ride include not making you wait and also not texting / calling.  For whatever reason, GPS is pretty convinced that we live about 300 feet away from where our house is.  On our street, it's our house, a dry pond and then our neighbor's house and GPS believes we live on the far end of the dry pond.  As a result, the uber drivers ALWAYS go to our neighbor's house and wait there -- we usually take uber at night and it's hard to see the house numbers.  B/c of that, I always stand outside at the bottom of our driveway before the driver arrives and hope they will see me -- they never do and usually end up calling me, or I call them when I see they are turning around or in the wrong driveway.  What's the best way to make sure the uber driver knows where I actually live so they don't waste time finding me?  [/quote]

I'm have assume you're punching your home address into the app and requesting the ride.  For some reason, GPS is simply a little off on a lot of addresses, in both dense urban spots and out in the boonies.  To fix this zoom in on the app to EXACTLY where you want the car to show up and drop a pin there, instead of typing in your home address.  As a rider, I rarely ever put in a pick-up address.  I usually try to force the driver to show up in an exact spot that I want and heading in the correct direction so that I can hop in anad go.  To do this I always "drop a pin".  This saves a ton of time as a rider.  The driver is trained to show up on that exact dot.  Try it out...you can zoom in really, really close to drop a pick-up pin in the app.[/quote]

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