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> simply disregard rules of the road that are inconvenient for them. There is a bit of a natural selection process to it. If you're a cab driver, and you keep
by mabbo 9y ago
> simply disregard rules of the road that are inconvenient for them.
There is a bit of a natural selection process to it.
If you're a cab driver, and you keep getting into accidents, you won't be a cab driver for long. If you take no risks and are constantly late, you won't be a cab driver for long. If you have a poor sense of direction, or spacial awareness when driving, you probably won't be a driver for very long.
After decades of this process, most professional cab drivers are just reckless enough to get away with it.
These Uber drivers haven't spent decades going through that process. Everyone's a newbie. The difference this time is that the risk isn't being undertaken by the company, it's being undertaken by the drivers themselves.
- 11thEarlOfMar 9y ago> Everyone's a newbie. Not really. A newbie at being paid to drive, but in many cases, not new to driving. In my area, I can predict to the minute when I'll arrive at my destination, and what route is best at that time of day, even for a 20 mile trip and without software support. That's because I've been driving 24k miles+ annually here for nearly 30 years. Not to mention, the driver's app has the same real-time mapping features that smart phones have. So they can avoid grid locked areas, accidents, etc. even without years of cab driving experience. Yes, an experienced cab driver will be a better cab driver, in general, than a new Uber driver. But not enough better to keep the masses away from Uber/Lyft. Cab companies are getting slaughtered, cab drivers are panicking and two-timing or jumping to Uber/Lyft, and this is happening globally.
- toast0 9y agoAre you driving for Uber/Lyft? I was hoping I would get more drivers like you, with deep experience of the area, etc; but the drivers I've had, at least during normal working hours seem to be people who don't have a lot of experience driving in general, and for example have a hard time navigating around the mountain view train station, despite google maps giving them reasonable directions.
- jxramos 9y agoI always tell folks in my car if we witness someone doing something daring and crazy on the road "hey, they did pull it off after all"