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New Yorkers Can Now Get Unlimited UberPool in Manhattan for $200

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Re: New Yorkers Can Now Get Unlimited UberPool in Manhattan for $200

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Post by ixtli »

Before you get all excited about this, it's ONLY UberPOOL and your destination must start and end in Manhattan. So if you use this to commute for two weeks you're paying 10 (edit: obviously 100/20 = 5, it's early. leave me alone) dollars flat for a cab ride that you share and will take longer than normal because of the overhead of splitting the ride.

There are certainly some people for whom this will be cost effective, especially if they spend most of their day traveling to places they can be 5-10 minutes +/- their target arrival. However for people like me who live on the east side of Manhattan and commute to FiDi it doesn't actually save a worthwhile amount of money.

Also forbes is incredibly spammy so here's the link directly to the promo: https://www.uber.com/info/plus/newyork/

Re: New Yorkers Can Now Get Unlimited UberPool in Manhattan for $200

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Post by frewsxcv »

jessriedel wrote: post #9
koolba wrote: post #2

Note that this is uber pool and is limited to a section of Manhattan (below 125th street). It's $100 for two weeks or $200 for a month. Business idea! Sign up for unlimited uber rides and resell them for cash. Just stand on a corner where people are waiting for cabs, charge them $5 in cash to go where they want, and then call an uber pool for them.

Below 125th street is something like 80% of Manhattan's area and probably 90% of the population (including half of Harlem), so it's really not particularly limited. They just are cutting off the outskirts since there likely isn't a high enough density of UberPool users up there for it to make sense.

90% of Manhattan? Maybe. 90% of NYC? Definitely not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_New_York_City

Re: New Yorkers Can Now Get Unlimited UberPool in Manhattan for $200

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Post by wtvanhest »

whenwillitstop wrote: post #10

I live in Manhattan. This is a rip off. The Uber Pool rides can take up to an hour sometimes, they drop off and pick up up to five people on your way. Uber if you are reading this, everyone in NYC realizes what a waste of time Uber Pool is.

Except for the people taking it...

Re: New Yorkers Can Now Get Unlimited UberPool in Manhattan for $200

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Post by empath75 »

whenwillitstop wrote: post #10

I live in Manhattan. This is a rip off. The Uber Pool rides can take up to an hour sometimes, they drop off and pick up up to five people on your way. Uber if you are reading this, everyone in NYC realizes what a waste of time Uber Pool is.

I thought uberpool was for commuters that were going to the same way every day.

Re: New Yorkers Can Now Get Unlimited UberPool in Manhattan for $200

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Post by empath75 »

ixtli wrote: post #11

Before you get all excited about this, it's ONLY UberPOOL and your destination must start and end in Manhattan. So if you use this to commute for two weeks you're paying 10 (edit: obviously 100/20 = 5, it's early. leave me alone) dollars flat for a cab ride that you share and will take longer than normal because of the overhead of splitting the ride. There are certainly some people for whom this will be cost effectiv…

if you go both ways, it's $5

Re: New Yorkers Can Now Get Unlimited UberPool in Manhattan for $200

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Post by CoolGuySteve »

whenwillitstop wrote: post #10

I live in Manhattan. This is a rip off. The Uber Pool rides can take up to an hour sometimes, they drop off and pick up up to five people on your way. Uber if you are reading this, everyone in NYC realizes what a waste of time Uber Pool is.

How does Uber Pool even work during rush hour? Do you spend all day trapped in Times Square waiting to pick up the second person? Or does Uber try and route around gridlock? Does it just skip the other person if the car gets stuck?

Or maybe I'm paranoid because of a bad experience trying to get to a job interview via cab my first time in NYC.

Re: New Yorkers Can Now Get Unlimited UberPool in Manhattan for $200

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Post by djrogers »

ixtli wrote: post #11

Before you get all excited about this, it's ONLY UberPOOL and your destination must start and end in Manhattan. So if you use this to commute for two weeks you're paying 10 (edit: obviously 100/20 = 5, it's early. leave me alone) dollars flat for a cab ride that you share and will take longer than normal because of the overhead of splitting the ride. There are certainly some people for whom this will be cost effectiv…

You forgot that people commute 2 ways in your math, so 2 weeks of commutes would be 20 trips coming out to $5/trip, not 10.

Re: New Yorkers Can Now Get Unlimited UberPool in Manhattan for $200

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Post by apatters »

Not only is Forbes a publication which forces people to disable ad blockers and then serves them malware-laden ads, but they have also written a headline here which is misleading through omission of crucial details.

At least I assume the headline on HN represents the Forbes headline accurately, but I don't know, because they won't let me read their content.

I think that Forbes should be blacklisted on HN.

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