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In europe, you don't pay tips to uber drivers. Surely, if the tip is compulsory, it should be called a service fee
Legally, it’s not compulsory. Socially and culturally, it definitely is. In the US, if you don’t tip 15%, you’re either an asshole, or you’re saying there’s severe issues with the service. I’m not going justify this culture—I don’t like it either—but that is the way it is.
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As a biker, I feel MICH safer around self driving cars because I know they are paying attention. I don’t need to check if they see me. They do.
I'm the exact opposite. I've had a couple incidents that make me not trust them. (Weird this was down voted, just sharing personal experiences)
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>For people who pay more taxes than they receive benefits and who could choose to drive instead. that doesn't make sense. You just described the issue: they can choose to drive. And many do in the US. Government subsidizes transport to get more people into the city hubs, which bolsters the economy of business as more people can reach downtown, which gives the town/city more money in taxes. These business have fixed c…
Public services used by people who can afford the alternatives are universally better than those intended for the poor. If you don't use the service yourself, you don't care that much about the quality, and you are more likely to support funding cuts. Because the poor are a minority, most people don't really care about services used by them.
If you don't use the service it doesn't matter if it's a hunk of junk or a limousine, it's your tax money for a service you don't care about and will cut it anyway. You may be more likely to cut a limousine if you don't personally use it.
>Because the poor are a minority, most people don't really care about services used by them.
I don't know about minority, especially in these times. But minority or not, welfare programs take up 20% or so of government spending. It's a large enough population being serviced that it can't be ignored.
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>> An affordable mid size car costs roughly $6k per year Show your math.
Really? do you want to see every little receipt from the GP? I'll give a rough cost with my small sedan pre-pandemic - Gas every 2 weeks (30 mile commute to work), fillin up the car is about $60. so $120 for gas. 120/month is 1440/year - DMV costs are $150 a year - car wash every few months. Let's make it monthly and more expensive than my actual washes. $50/month, 600 a year - oil change every 3 months or so (probab…
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I'm the exact opposite. I've had a couple incidents that make me not trust them. (Weird this was down voted, just sharing personal experiences)
With Waymo? Or others?
I live right near Oracle Park where there was a big Cruise Yard, and there is a ton of traffic and cruise, zoox, etc self driving cars circling the neighborhood endlessly.
It's not as if I've had a overtly terrible single incident. It's as though they're causing unsafe driving conditions for pedestrians, cyclists and other motorists regularly.
Driving unreasonably slow and erratic, stopping in the middle of streets, blocking traffic, not responding to the need for them to move or respond as human driver would.
They're problematic. I could start a youtube channel or something it happens enough in my day to day life.
I love Waymo and use it all the time. One aspect I'd still like to see them figure out: As a bike commuter, I share the road with Waymo often. When cycling, you're always checking the eyes of other drivers to confirm if they see you. I've had a couple incidents where I was a little thrown/unnerved because I couldn't confirm if a Waymo was registering me. It ultimately behaved fine, but I had to put my guard way up be…
Joking, not joking: Cylon scanner [1] at the top the windscreen that locks on to you when it's giving way [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faukADr0_6g
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Nope. Cars are expensive. Waymo won't keep a bunch of extras sitting around just so that they have reserve capacity to scale up service during unusually busy events. It's more profitable just to make customers wait, or ask them to pay a higher fare for priority service.
Cars are extremely cheap compared to their drivers.
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Legally, it’s not compulsory. Socially and culturally, it definitely is. In the US, if you don’t tip 15%, you’re either an asshole, or you’re saying there’s severe issues with the service. I’m not going justify this culture—I don’t like it either—but that is the way it is.
I'm in the US and a frequent Uber users, and I've only tipped once over 10 years. My rating is 4.93, so I don't think the drivers see me as an asshole.
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In SF, up-front prices have been comparable to Uber’s, except that you don’t have to pay tip, which automatically makes it 15–20% cheaper. The few times I’ve tried it, the service has been good and its driving was safe. The only downside is that there seems to sometimes be longer wait times.
In europe, you don't pay tips to uber drivers. Surely, if the tip is compulsory, it should be called a service fee
It should be a reward for exceptional service, not a default assumption for average (or so help me, sub average) service.
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> How will waymo help with something like the super bowl? It will commit to the ride and not cancel.
Only if it’s coded that way. And a profit-seeking org may not code it that way if the optimal solution (for them) is canceling and finding more lucrative passengers.