Used uber for the first time this last weekend while travelling in chicago. Rode in a regular car the first night and it was a horrible experience. Used uber twice the second day and the experience was so so much better.

Drivers where extremely friendly, very nice cars and where actually interested in having a conversation during the ride. Will definetely be using again

I dont know how it works on your side of the pond but over here most regulation is in place to protect the customer and the employee. If you're able to lobby/argument your way through legislation then thats great and in fact how the real world works. If you're somehow incompetent at doing that then you're probably doomed as a company to begin with.

This is a silly simplification. They are not offering the same service more cheaply because they found a 'new way'. They are doing so because they think they can circumvent pretty much every existing legislation on cab services.

Same here. At least that's what they tell us.

If it was truly a horrible experience, one star them. I believe if they drop below a 4.6 avg rating they no longer give rides for uber.

Yeah, what was horrible about it?

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That was clarification?

I'm thinking he meant a regular cab.

I'm assuming it was a horrible experience for reasons not specified.

Here's why it's not horse**** and doesn't hurt customers: as a customer, I can have confidence that I won't be discriminated against based on where I live/my destination as long as cab drivers follow the regulations. If not, then I have to wonder how I'm getting home. It also doesn't hurt cabbies because they know going into driving a cab that they have to take customers to their desired destinations. I don't think that anyone would be silly enough to enter into a profession--other than criminal, of course--thinking that they're going to break the law as a matter of course.

Indeed I am pro-Uber and I use it frequently. I will use cabs if Uber is on a big surge or if there's some ungodly long wait for a car and I see cabs available to hail streetside.



That makes sense. It's almost like you knew that the job would entail taking people where they wanted to go.

So, as a driver what's the most profitable type of rider you look for?

the kind that goes through drive through obviously

free tacos!

Just read that Uber lost about $500 million last year on just over $500 million in revenue, so they were spending about $2 for every $1 they took in. Probablly looking up right now, as they're taking more money out of fares than they used to and their bonuses and guarantees are a lot lower than they used to be.

Uber stops offering UberPOP in France for now after violence and the arrest of two of their executives. Cars are being smashed and sometimes passenger and drivers are even held hostage for short periods of time.

http://www.theguardian.com/technolog...ervice-uberpop

looks like weve finally found something the french will fight for

Yeah **** sorry guys, phone corrected to car instead of cab. The uber rides where perefect. Zero complaints and rated both 5's

Friend of mine is in a growing US city that currently does not have Uber, and wants to keep tabs on when they're coming to his town. Advice?

(I know you can't read a sentence that vague and NOT ask, "What city?", so it's Rochester, MN. Home of the Mayo Clinic. Population 100k, and about 1/3rd of those folks work at the Mayo. Another massive "destination medical center" is planned now, and folks are thinking the population might double if that happens.)

Austin Geidt, Head of Global Expansion @Uber

Hey there- So I look at several different metrics in determining which US cities we head to. We keeps what cities we're coming to pretty under wrap until we soft launch there (or if it's on our job page). Though if it's a major city, we'll likely make it there.*

Thanks, G.

BTW, here's a quote from the Minneapolis page on uberpeople.net, emphasis added:

I knew I wasn't nuts when I cited the recent advertising and decreased demand.

Its probably old news for ya'll but class action lawsuit against Uber about to go HAM.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/uber-dri...tus-1441141539

Yeah I stopped Ubering once all the advertising started. Not trying to compete for crumbs.

Uber running radio ads in Nashville for drivers. Lying ****s claiming you can make up to $500/day.

And the minimum fare is now $4. So after Uber takes $1 off the top + 20% of what's left, the driver makes $2.40.

They have this delightful thing now where they ban your account if you don't drive for 30 ****ing days. Yea, "work whenever you want."

I'm gonna post a hilarious email exchange I've had recently trying to get my account reactivated.

now here comes Zlatko to save the ****ing day...


It's just such a ****ing **** show. You wouldn't believe what I had to do just to find their ****ing support email, it's listed NOWHERE on the site and I had to ask on a ****ing uber driver forum. Not only that, you need to find the specific email for your region. The "Help" menu on the website is terrible. The ENTIRE website is designed to be unhelpful it seems. The entire experience for drivers is just awful, the feeling on the partner forums is that they purposely **** with drivers in regions where there's an overflow.

My feeling is that uber being the ****ty company they are, outsourced their customer service to some third world ****hole for pennies on the dollar and I feel bad because I'm pretty sure Rommel ended up in a ditch somewhere in eastern europe.