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Uber is going to use tipping as excuse to lower payouts to drivers. If drivers get 80% of the fare now, they'll get 70% of the fare in a couple months because

Uber is going to use tipping as excuse to lower payouts to drivers. If drivers get 80% of the fare now, they'll get 70% of the fare in a couple months because Uber will argue that drivers get tips now, which more than compensate for that loss.

inverse_pi 9y ago
fyi this is what Lyft is already doing
- digitalzombie 9y ago
  Right Lyft already do this but there is no pressure because you don't have to tip right away. You get off and think about it. I was a Lyft driver for one summer. Also Lyft supposely paid more. Uber never encourage tipping and they didn't care about their driver at all. Their CEO was on the record for this. I chose Lyft because they were more friendly and they didn't treat their worker like dirt. I wouldn't ride an Uber or work for uber unless I really really have to. Most of the time I use Lyft for rides. It's a crap managed company, threat their female co worker like Donald's locker room talk. They threat their worker like crap. They did some really unfair things against Lyft. Including massive call on Lyft rides and then canceling it. They spy on their rival Lyft drivers. And they tried to steal Google's autonomous car tech. They got greedy with their expansion too.
  - furioussloth 9y ago
    " Riders will be asked whether they would like to leave a tip when rating their driver at the end of a trip." So exactly same as Lyft. Also do not forget Lyft would not exist without uber doing most of the "shady" work they did to get around and eventually change regulations which helped ride-sharing companies to operate .
    - kelnos 9y ago
      And hell, Lyft has done plenty of shady stuff, too. They're just quiet about it and have a better PR department, and have branded themselves in a much more sympathetic way.
      - spaceflunky 9y ago
        I don't know if their PR department is better, I think it is just that Lyft got lucky that the media, pundits, and commenters like us tend use "Uber" as a catchall for ride-sharing. Maybe it's a "first to market" curse for Uber. It's kind of like how tech shuttles get labeled "Google Buses" even though Facebook, Yahoo, Linkedin, Microsoft, etc, also have hundreds of buses. But colloquially, all white busses are "Google Buses"

inverse_pi 9y ago

fyi this is what Lyft is already doing

digitalzombie 9y ago
Right Lyft already do this but there is no pressure because you don't have to tip right away. You get off and think about it. I was a Lyft driver for one summer. Also Lyft supposely paid more. Uber never encourage tipping and they didn't care about their driver at all. Their CEO was on the record for this. I chose Lyft because they were more friendly and they didn't treat their worker like dirt. I wouldn't ride an Uber or work for uber unless I really really have to. Most of the time I use Lyft for rides. It's a crap managed company, threat their female co worker like Donald's locker room talk. They threat their worker like crap. They did some really unfair things against Lyft. Including massive call on Lyft rides and then canceling it. They spy on their rival Lyft drivers. And they tried to steal Google's autonomous car tech. They got greedy with their expansion too.
- furioussloth 9y ago
  " Riders will be asked whether they would like to leave a tip when rating their driver at the end of a trip." So exactly same as Lyft. Also do not forget Lyft would not exist without uber doing most of the "shady" work they did to get around and eventually change regulations which helped ride-sharing companies to operate .
  - kelnos 9y ago
    And hell, Lyft has done plenty of shady stuff, too. They're just quiet about it and have a better PR department, and have branded themselves in a much more sympathetic way.
    - spaceflunky 9y ago
      I don't know if their PR department is better, I think it is just that Lyft got lucky that the media, pundits, and commenters like us tend use "Uber" as a catchall for ride-sharing. Maybe it's a "first to market" curse for Uber. It's kind of like how tech shuttles get labeled "Google Buses" even though Facebook, Yahoo, Linkedin, Microsoft, etc, also have hundreds of buses. But colloquially, all white busses are "Google Buses"