The company recently changed the 5 minute required wait down to 3 minutes.
The worst are actually rides with stops. Uber likes to lose track of time and/or pay nothing for the wait and/or make it hard to cancel when people decide to do their weekly grocery run.
maybe it’s just what I tell myself to cope, but I feel like Lyft fucks the driver and the passenger slightly less than Uber. I don’t drive for Uber at all now, I can usually get 100% of my rides from Lyft without much downtime, and when I did drive for both Lyft was never as keen on offering me dogshit rides as Uber was, especially after I started declining the bad offers. Uber, on the other hand, seems to want to punish you if you don’t want to take every <$25/hr ride they offer.
Don’t get me wrong, Lyft will still try to screw with you, but they do it less frequently. I get paid for all my wait times, I check. It’s not much for the shorter ones (a minute late is like a couple bucks, maybe) but the longer delays on meant-to-be-shorter rides (fiasco at the checkout, an argument has begun, etc.) can sometimes double the ride profit.
I’ve always found it backwards that customers are the ones setting the price. When I open the app, I want a list of like top 10 closest drivers and their rates. Then again, I don’t use Uber, we have something else where I live.
Yeah, we’re considered contractors legally, not employees, so we should be able to set contract rates. We don’t set the rates, though, Lyft or Uber does.
There are some apps that allow drivers to set their own rates (Empower seems to be one), but they don’t serve my area, and even if they did they’re probably vastly less popular to use exclusively right now until they pick up traction.
Idc if I can see you when that timer turns red, you should’ve been ready earlier. Every time, EVERY TIME, I have given them slack they have been rude or ranked of cigarettes.
Mhm privatising whats supposed to be public individual transport. Lovely.
No no no, public transport should be there, trams, metro and buses.
Individual transport already has dozens of problems. If we start making it public it will be a bigger money pit than Reagans starwars
Edit:grammar
I was refering to taxis/cabs.
