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> I'm interested to hear more about how Uber behaviour is inconsiderate. Certainly, and I think I can sum up why you and I have different experiences in anothe
by techsupporter 9y ago
> I'm interested to hear more about how Uber behaviour is inconsiderate.
Certainly, and I think I can sum up why you and I have different experiences in another quote:
> In the U.K.
Your government didn't bend to the "but they're just shaaaaaaring so being licensed is haaaaard" bullshit that many governments here did. (Austin, Texas tried to pull it off and the Legislature of the State of Texas smacked them, hard.)
I live in Seattle. The vast majority of Uber (and Lyft) drivers here are on the "UberX" platform so they're virtually unlicensed--except for a basic city permit and a regular driving license--and have no identifying markings except for a standard vehicle license plate. This makes complaining to any regulatory agency about them problematic and while their behavior in traffic is illegal, it is also difficult for traffic police to be everywhere to write the myriad of citations that could result.
Uber/Lyft drivers know this and the minuscule risk of getting caught is vastly outweighed by getting a crappy rating by picking up a passenger a few feet away in a loading zone versus right in the middle of the bus stop where the passenger has dropped the pickup pin.
That's just one of my huge heap of complaints about how the "ridesharing" drivers actually pilot their vehicles. Making a U-turn in the middle of traffic to pick up a fare that's just popped up on their screen is another. But it really gets my goat how they use bus lanes and bus stops as their own private pickup and drop off areas because that one person in that one car is stopping the 40 of us on the damn bus from getting where we need to go. And Uber/Lyft drivers are almost always the ones doing it. I've very rarely seen a liveried taxicab act like that.
Maybe taxicabs do actually drive as bad or worse as "ridesharing" drivers do. Maybe the don't-call-them-taxis are just more plentiful so they're more visible. I don't know for certain but I'm well and truly sick of it.
- dawnerd 9y agoJust to add another pain point, in Orlando drivers hire out immigrants to drive for them. I've had many rides where the person driving speaks no English and doesn't match the profile pic despite the car plates matching and having the lyft/Uber app open with my details. Many complaints to Lyft and Uber and nothing has been done so far as I can tell. And as you'd expect those drivers don't obey the laws at all. Last driver I had ran every single red light and stop sign.
- bdcravens 9y agoI had a similar experience in San Diego. Driver had only been in town 2 days; we had to give him directions (I was there for a conference and had never been to San Diego before!)
- edoceo 9y agoCabs do this all the time, since the dawn of time
- randycupertino 9y agoThe same drivers for Uber are the same cabbies. It's all the same people, running the same tricks. Uber didn't disrupt anything, just moved the platform and added a new middleman.
- Operyl 9y agoRecently Uber will randomly select drivers to submit a picture before the app will let the go online. So it seems someone somewhere is trying now, shrug.
- isostatic 9y agoTry that bus lane blocking stud fin the uk and you'll find the bus has taken a picture of you, and a hefty fine will land on the door of the registered keeper of the car. For some reason in London, black cabs (racist drivers with low standards, high fares, and cash only for tax evasion) have lobbied for their drivers to be included in the "public transport" group, meaning bus lanes are full of buses and rich businessmen going to meetings.
- mjcl 9y agoThankfully, at least SF Muni has traffic enforcement cameras on the buses and trains and they issue tickets when folks are in the bus lane & bus stops.