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> Sharing isn't viable. I don't want my 20 minute taxi/CaaS ride to become 30+ minutes as we drive off my route to pick up another rider I drive for Uber part

• Ensorceled 10y ago
  Uber says Pool is at 20+% of the rides. Huh, I stand partially corrected!
  • shostack 10y ago
    I think most people would prefer no delays and a private ride. But the savings of pooling is too large for many to ignore.
    • 0x6c6f6c 10y ago
      So you mean, most people absolutely do prefer no delays and a private ride, since the other ~80% of Uber riders don't do the POOL option. The market exists for both though. It's a smart move to offer this option. It's more energy economical and fiscally responsible. There's certainly even people who have the time but not the money.
      • posterboy 10y ago
        a shared ride has to have at least two occupants. With 4 passengers on average, 20% shared rides would mean 50% of user.
        • coffeevradar 10y ago
          The Uber Pool service doesn't require you to actually be matched. If there doesn't happen to be another rider going in the same direction, you still get the cheaper fare and it's counted as an Uber Pool ride.
      • aianus 10y ago
        Pool is not an option everywhere (even in the same city). In areas where it is available it represents a majority of my trip requests.
    • Bedon292 10y ago
      Pool also appears to be the default option now, so I on a recent trip accidentally got a pool a couple times. I didn't know the first time, and forgot the second. Second time was also a 'pool' with no additional riders, so it was a happy accident for a cheaper ride. Perhaps people bet on that as well?
      • iainmerrick 10y ago
        If we're imagining a pleasant future where self-driving cars have solved congestion, isn't some kind of car pooling going to be necessary? It's fundamentally silly for millions of commuters to each travel in their own car, and robot cars aren't going to fix that. Buses make massively more efficient use of road space (when they're reasonably full, anyway). Robot cars should reduce accidents, and parking problems will go away, but they won't magically reduce congestion on commuter routes. But car-pooling will.
        • Bedon292 10y ago
          Valid point, car pooling would definitely be a good thing. And I think people would be more willing if it was more efficient than it is. Uber Pool does not seem to match people very well. Scheduled rides could probably be very optimized, so its two minutes out of the way, for each person, and no one really minds. Also optimizations like, if the rider isn't there yet, don't even go for them and pass them on to the next car. Definitely plausible, but a pain in current formats.
          • callalex 10y ago
            You just described a bus.
            • iainmerrick 10y ago
              Something like Uber for buses would be great! Imagine an existing excellent bus network, like London's, but with completely dynamic routes, and a variety of bus sizes suitable for different times of day. Open the app and tell it where you're going, and it tells you which bus stop and bus number you need.