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Here’s the thing. (1) Uber is not a full time job for a lot of people. They have a couple of hours here or there that fits within their existing schedule. I don

Here’s the thing. (1) Uber is not a full time job for a lot of people. They have a couple of hours here or there that fits within their existing schedule. I don’t doubt that it’s helped put food on the table for a lot of families. Unfortunately In a few years driverless cars will take this opportunity away (2) Uber drovers are rational market participants. If they were really averaging less than $4/hour then this wouldn’t be attractive to driver given our current low unemployment rate.

nicholas73 9y ago
I talked to one guy who drives for Uber just for his hour long commute. If he was going to drive anyway, why not have someone else pay for it?
- strangegecko 9y ago
  How does this work? He can't choose the passenger's destination.
  - eropple 9y ago
    I believe you can, twice a day.
  - nicholas73 9y ago
    You can tell Uber where you want to end up, and they will route you customers going that location. Also, I'm astounded at least two people bothered to downvote my factual reporting.
poulsbohemian 9y ago
>"Uber is not a full time job for a lot of people" I don't know this to be true without seeing a citation. In Seattle and Maui (two places I've used a car service recently), it has seemed to me at least the Lyft drivers I've encountered were all full-time drivers.
- Someone 9y ago
  Could be because, when you use the service, you aren’t sampling drivers uniformly. For example, only 10% of drivers could do it full time, but 90% of all rides could have a full time driver. (Numbers for illustration only; they aren’t likely to reflect Uber’s population of drivers)
- closeparen 9y ago
  I've heard (not verified) that Lyft's incentive schemes contain cliffs that encourage/select for driving full-time to a much greater degree than Uber.
davecraige 9y ago
48% of all Uber driving is done by full time drivers accorinding to their own company data

nicholas73 9y ago

I talked to one guy who drives for Uber just for his hour long commute. If he was going to drive anyway, why not have someone else pay for it?

strangegecko 9y ago
How does this work? He can't choose the passenger's destination.
- eropple 9y ago
  I believe you can, twice a day.
- nicholas73 9y ago
  You can tell Uber where you want to end up, and they will route you customers going that location. Also, I'm astounded at least two people bothered to downvote my factual reporting.

poulsbohemian 9y ago

>"Uber is not a full time job for a lot of people" I don't know this to be true without seeing a citation. In Seattle and Maui (two places I've used a car service recently), it has seemed to me at least the Lyft drivers I've encountered were all full-time drivers.

Someone 9y ago
Could be because, when you use the service, you aren’t sampling drivers uniformly. For example, only 10% of drivers could do it full time, but 90% of all rides could have a full time driver. (Numbers for illustration only; they aren’t likely to reflect Uber’s population of drivers)
closeparen 9y ago
I've heard (not verified) that Lyft's incentive schemes contain cliffs that encourage/select for driving full-time to a much greater degree than Uber.

davecraige 9y ago

48% of all Uber driving is done by full time drivers accorinding to their own company data