4 ms·
Maybe it learned a bit too much from San Francisco drivers?
by scarmig 10y ago
Maybe it learned a bit too much from San Francisco drivers?
- spike021 10y agoBeen watching too many Muni busses.
- jacobolus 10y agoIf it uses Uber drivers for training, heaven help us: I’ve seen illegal U-turns, constant double parking, reversing down 1-way streets, moving right turns through red lights, sudden stops, speeding 25+ mph over the legal limit, lane changes in intersections, lots of turning without signals, lack of proper yielding to obvious pedestrians, cyclists nearly side-swiped, etc. (Some subset of) Uber drivers are one of the worst hazards on the road.
- detaro 10y agoCurious, have you reported those things to uber/given appropriately bad ratings? (Uber always claims the rating system should filter unsafe actors out quickly)
- jacobolus 10y agoI don’t have Uber installed on my phone. I mostly walk or take the bus/subway. This is just my observations as a pedestrian.
- detaro 10y agooh, then I misunderstood. Would still be curious how passengers actually act in these cases, since "I don't want to give a bad rating" seems to be a big thing.
- surfmike 10y agoWhy wouldn't you want to give a bad rating for bad driving? I almost always give 5 stars, but with the notable exception being distracted or aggressive drivers.
- NeutronBoy 10y agoBecause the driver will retaliate by giving you a bad rating.
- santaclaus 10y agoDoes the driver see individual ratings? In most pools the driver immediately rates the passenger, anyway.
- notyourwork 10y agoI don't want to criticize you in particular but I have a problem with "always give 5 stars". Are you telling me that your average Uber ride is 100% perfect? I find that hard to believe, moreover basic distributions would find this improbable. Sorry for ranting, I wish more people would give realistic ratings to things instead of starting with 100% perfect and decrementing for misses. It should start in the middle, 50% and go up or down based on experience. This would give a much better set of ratings that mean something.
- kevingadd 10y agoIf a driver's average rating drops below around 4.5 they get kicked off. By design you can't give a driver less than 5 unless you want them to lose their job.
- notyourwork 10y agoWhy do you phrase this in a way that implies that is my problem? That is a mechanism Uber created because of the problem I originally called out. If we didn't have this rating problem, 4.5 threshold would probably be much closer to the 50%.
- deleted 10y ago[deleted]
- deleted 10y ago[deleted]
- notyourwork 10y agoI give bad ratings any time a driver acts like this. I have no problem with that and if Uber wants to stop servicing me because I handed a bad driver a bad rating, I am ok with that.
- dagw 10y agoIf the behavior resulted in the passenger getting to where had to be on time, as opposed to 15 minutes late, then I'd assume they'd reward the driver for this behavior. In fact it would be interesting to see how ride times compare between driven and driver-less Ubers. I suspect that initial results will show that driverless cars are slower and that this might make some people prefer human drivers.
- ClassyJacket 10y agoIf you're not in the car, how can you possibly know whether it's Uber or not?
- ceejayoz 10y agoThere's a sticker on every Uber, isn't there? http://www.centredaily.com/news/local/article64550272.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/local/article64550272.html
- notyourwork 10y agoThat and 90+% its a Toyota Prius.
- ClassyJacket 10y agoI've never seen one with a sticker. Don't know why that'd vary from country to country but I guess it does.
- umurkontaci 10y agoIn some places Uber cars have stickers on their windshield
- usrusr 10y agoThat only works for misbehavior that inconveniences the rider. If it only hurts those on the other side of the windscreen, it's recklessness as a service. Sure, every user has some threshold beyond which they would not be fine with it anymore, but the bad boy image Uber so carefully crafted over the years provides a considerable amount of self selection so that those who would care most never even install the app.
- zbrozek 10y agoAn Uber driver deliberately pushed me (a cyclist) out of the way with the hood of his car when I tried to take a picture of him parking on an expressway. I filed a police report and a complaint with Uber, but nothing came of it.
- zbrozek 10y agoAn Uber driver deliberately pushed me (a cyclist) out of the way with the hood of his car when I tried to take a picture of him parking on an expressway. I filed a police report and a complaint with Uber, but nothing came of it.
- ww520 10y agoAll others are bad, though right turn on red light is legal after stop.
- Hydraulix989 10y agoLeft turn on red is legal as well in CA whenever two one-way streets are intersecting.
- majewsky 10y agoAnd then people laugh at me for taking the train. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯