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I recently was in a Lyft where the driver was also an Uber driver. I don't know how rapidly he switched contexts (ride to ride, day to day, or something like su

I recently was in a Lyft where the driver was also an Uber driver. I don't know how rapidly he switched contexts (ride to ride, day to day, or something like surges). Does either company do anything to prevent this?

dpiers 12y ago
No, if they did, they would not be able to claim that drivers are contractors. People driving on Lyft/Uber are allowed to perform trips at will, and can go on/offline as they please. Something that would cause problems is if a driver was simultaneously accepting requests on one service while performing trips on another. I've had this happen as a user, and you just see the driver going the opposite direction for ten minutes while claiming to be 'on the way'. Another problem might be cancellation rates; if a driver were online in multiple apps and got simultaneous requests, they would have to accept one and cancel the other. Acceptance rates are part of a driver's performance records on Lyft/Uber/etc. and declining lots of rides could get a driver's account deactivated.