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Since you have to set a pickup pin explicitly, how does GPS matter at all, here?
by always_good 8y ago
Since you have to set a pickup pin explicitly, how does GPS matter at all, here?
- d4l3k 8y agoDrivers sometimes go to where the live GPS signal tells them you are instead of the pin. Likewise the pin is sometimes required to be in dumb spots (like the airport) even when there's a much more convenient spot 100 feet down the street.
- smt88 8y agoIn my experience, the location I choose is often lost in translation between my Uber app and the driver's maps app. Sometimes the difference is egregious.
- rayiner 8y agoUber is nuts for letting drivers use their own maps app.
- smt88 8y agoI was careful not to say "third-party" maps app. They may have been making excuses for their own mistakes, but drivers have told me that sometimes the built-in Uber maps also get the wrong location. I have no idea if that's true and have always been confused about whether the driver app even has maps built into it.
- Semaphor 8y agoI had that problem a lot in South Africa. We'd set a pickup spot exactly where we want it, drivers told me the uber app shows them the last location I was at instead.
- CPLX 8y agoYeah no. The Uber native maps app is almost invariably incorrect, at least here in Brooklyn. It does insane stuff like trying to put you on the BQE (interstate) to go like 800 yards or route you from Brooklyn to Brooklyn by transiting Manhattan and two bridges. Until they figure out how to fix that they pretty much need to let drivers flip over to Waze or something.
- 88 8y agoDon't forget the best route for Uber is not necessarily the shortest or quickest.