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Rictic: I should have addressed this in the post! Our minimum reliability rate is 50% but a vast majority of our rides are done by what we call our exclusive dr
by ajju 12y ago
Rictic: I should have addressed this in the post! Our minimum reliability rate is 50% but a vast majority of our rides are done by what we call our exclusive drivers who have a 70% (soon 80%) reliability rate requirement with additional perks. I will update the post to clarify this!
There are multiple reasons why a driver might not accept a ride but they all revolve around the fact that drivers are not our employees and they often are unable to or forget to become unavailable when they should be:
- She just took a break to have lunch (should have turned the app to unavailable but forgot)
- She is a taxi driver (we have both taxi and personal drivers on the platform) and just picked up a ride on the street and got a 2nd ride before she could turn unavailable (we measure volume in rides/second at busy times)
- She drives for other platforms as well and accepted a ride request on it before she could turn unavailable
- Each driver has 15 seconds to accept a ride before it goes to another driver. Sometimes the real world intervenes and you can't accept the ride in 15 seconds, especially if you are driving and not pulled over.
One more data points:
- I can't speak for Uber/Lyft but if you talk to their drivers you will see that their requirements are similar if not lower.
- kenrikm 12y ago15 seconds seems a bit low considering it can take a few seconds to open the app, have you tried testing other times? I know it's a balance between getting the rider an answer quickly and giving the drivers time however you may force an available driver to miss the dispatch if it's too low.
- ajju 12y agoWe have! It's an interesting tradeoff between making the riders wait too long for their ride to be matched to a driver (in many cities the waiting threshold after which a rider gives up on the app is firmly in seconds) and giving the driver enough time to safely accept the ride. I see you work for iCracked =) I am a user, and have been seeing your iCracked cars around. Really interested in how your system works in analogous aspects!