$100 for a weird two-week initial period. Reads like:
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
#42I 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.
This interesting.
I regularly take UberPool in London, and I have company maybe 30-40% of the times. I don't know whether this is a general thing in London, or my experience is an outlier.
Re: New Yorkers Can Now Get Unlimited UberPool in Manhattan for $200
#43I 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.
"Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded." -- Yogi Berra
That quote only makes sense if the only traffic in Manhattan were Uber cars, which it most definitely is not.
Re: New Yorkers Can Now Get Unlimited UberPool in Manhattan for $200
#44Ban fortune.com
Re: New Yorkers Can Now Get Unlimited UberPool in Manhattan for $200
#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
I thought they used google. Anyway, NYers are notorious for having strong opinions about the 'right way' to navigate any given route. Grain of salt.
Last time I complained about this, someone blamed it on Apple Maps. Some drivers have both, mostly so they can see the traffic data from Google Maps. I like those drivers. Edit: I'd actually be surprised if it was Google Maps at fault, given that their Maps team has a large contingent in the NYC office.
Things dramatically improved recently when they added a link to Waze in the Uber app.
And by improved I mean the drivers went from genuinely lost, misdirected, and clueless to merely confused and unaware of their surroundings but traveling vaguely in the right direction.
Re: New Yorkers Can Now Get Unlimited UberPool in Manhattan for $200
#46Before you get all excited about this, it's ONLY UberPOOL and your destination must start and end in Manhattan. So if you use this to commute for two weeks you're paying 10 (edit: obviously 100/20 = 5, it's early. leave me alone) dollars flat for a cab ride that you share and will take longer than normal because of the overhead of splitting the ride. There are certainly some people for whom this will be cost effectiv…
Personnaly it's at least three trips, work, going out and home and sometimes more on the weekend so this is pretty amazing actually. It's much more comfortable than taking subways (which is also 100$ a month)
$116.50, +1 for a new metrocard
Uber beats subway by $16.50; or three and a bit uberpools/month
But there is the whole: subway = nuclear power = low carbon footprint vs uber = dead dinosaurs.
Re: New Yorkers Can Now Get Unlimited UberPool in Manhattan for $200
#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
Personnaly it's at least three trips, work, going out and home and sometimes more on the weekend so this is pretty amazing actually. It's much more comfortable than taking subways (which is also 100$ a month)
$116.50, +1 for a new metrocard Uber beats subway by $16.50; or three and a bit uberpools/month But there is the whole: subway = nuclear power = low carbon footprint vs uber = dead dinosaurs.
And the whole exploiting people who don't understand the math of their business and are actually losing money / putting themselves into life altering IRS debt thing...
Re: New Yorkers Can Now Get Unlimited UberPool in Manhattan for $200
#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
Personnaly it's at least three trips, work, going out and home and sometimes more on the weekend so this is pretty amazing actually. It's much more comfortable than taking subways (which is also 100$ a month)
$116.50, +1 for a new metrocard Uber beats subway by $16.50; or three and a bit uberpools/month But there is the whole: subway = nuclear power = low carbon footprint vs uber = dead dinosaurs.
Many large companies in manhattan participate in pretax programs that allow people (myself included) to get a monthly metro card for ~60 dollars. So yeah these types of programs will never compete with that.
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
Personnaly it's at least three trips, work, going out and home and sometimes more on the weekend so this is pretty amazing actually. It's much more comfortable than taking subways (which is also 100$ a month)
$116.50, +1 for a new metrocard Uber beats subway by $16.50; or three and a bit uberpools/month But there is the whole: subway = nuclear power = low carbon footprint vs uber = dead dinosaurs.
Does the NYC Subway really run on nuclear power? I had no idea, but that is cool.
Re: New Yorkers Can Now Get Unlimited UberPool in Manhattan for $200
#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
Personnaly it's at least three trips, work, going out and home and sometimes more on the weekend so this is pretty amazing actually. It's much more comfortable than taking subways (which is also 100$ a month)
$116.50, +1 for a new metrocard Uber beats subway by $16.50; or three and a bit uberpools/month But there is the whole: subway = nuclear power = low carbon footprint vs uber = dead dinosaurs.
The math here is wrong. Uber is offering two weeks for $100, not one month.