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Still baffled…
So, I’ve been driving a little over a year now, just part time and in no way making a career out of this.
For those of you that are dependent on Uber for a livelihood, you have my respect, best wishes and sympathy.
I am going to pose this question as I am too lazy to search for an answer. Feel free to be snide, sarcastic and/or inane.
Does anyone know what kind of protocol and/or criteria Uber uses to determine which category of requests you receive. I am curious because, calls that are near me (within 3 miles) are typically ‘trip radar’ and direct ‘requests’ are all over the place. To illustrate this point, I received 4 ‘trip radar’ calls in a row, all under 3 miles away… Next I get a ‘request’ that is 12 miles away, going another 12 or so miles to an outlying area with little activity. I really don’t care, since I am strictly a cherry picker and have maintained an acceptance rate of 8-10% since I started driving (although my acceptance rate is up currently since Uber started this test market thing in the Phoenix area.) but I am hopeful someone can shed some light on this.
I realize and accept that Uber will never instate any policy that is beneficial to drivers or riders, (and customer service is just a punchline) but the current practice baffles me (even allowing for third world technology and the practice of guilt and coercion as motivators.)
Feel free to respond or delete as you feel appropriate.
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Uber may be experimenting with Trip Radar because yea I’ve received an excellent trip on it that I don’t believe dozens of other XL drivers in front of me in the que would have declined.
It might be part of an intelligent AI that acts more like a human dispatcher. This is what I suspect and what they should be doing.
What they should be doing is getting back to real ride-sharing, especially for the crap compensation they offer, and allow more people just to take others along a current trip instead of trying to be a taxi company.
It’s the only way it makes any financial sense.
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