I don't get why Uber doesn't tell me the exterior color of UberX cars coming to pick me up. I have no idea what a "Nissan Versa" is; knowing it's a blue minivan would be helpful.
Or being able to describe yourself: Black hat, white shirt.
How to find your Uber passenger rating
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Re: How to find your Uber passenger rating
#32Are there any drivers in the audience who can tell us what different ratings mean?
I spoke with a driver yesterday about it and he says he will basically pick up anyone above a 4. This was in NY so might mean different things in different places and to different people.
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#33I don't get why Uber doesn't tell me the exterior color of UberX cars coming to pick me up. I have no idea what a "Nissan Versa" is; knowing it's a blue minivan would be helpful.
They seem to display the license plate number now. That works perfectly.
Displaying the license plate number is less useful when the car is across the street or approaching from a distance.
I also had a fun "gypsy black car running uber app trying to extort me" experience in NYC last trip, and a bunch of black cars who took 15-20 minutes to arrive (despite initially saying "3 minutes" and showing as around the corner). In a few cases I had the driver call me and give me useless directions to where he was, so I cancelled the trip and booked another Uber, and got someone dramatically better.
I apparently have a 4.6 rating.
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#34I don't get why Uber doesn't tell me the exterior color of UberX cars coming to pick me up. I have no idea what a "Nissan Versa" is; knowing it's a blue minivan would be helpful.
Lyft provides a picture of the vehicle that will be picking you up.
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#35This is a lot easier than the Charles MITM proxy I used to intercept the Uber iPhone API calls to determine mine. I feel kind of silly now that I didnt bother checking the web API. I also made a web scraper to get my uber trip details (incl. route driven), save it to JSON and map the trips all at once. http://i.imgur.com/Q1W59rD.jpg . Here's a quick dump of the code https://github.com/joshhunt/uber . It's pretty roug…
Love to see more of your web scraper. Could make cool tools such as send you a text / notification each time your rating changes.
Re: How to find your Uber passenger rating
#36I don't get why Uber doesn't tell me the exterior color of UberX cars coming to pick me up. I have no idea what a "Nissan Versa" is; knowing it's a blue minivan would be helpful.
Zip car is the same way. They have a picture of the vehicle, but it isn't the right color, just some generic picture.
Re: How to find your Uber passenger rating
#37This is a lot easier than the Charles MITM proxy I used to intercept the Uber iPhone API calls to determine mine. I feel kind of silly now that I didnt bother checking the web API. I also made a web scraper to get my uber trip details (incl. route driven), save it to JSON and map the trips all at once. http://i.imgur.com/Q1W59rD.jpg . Here's a quick dump of the code https://github.com/joshhunt/uber . It's pretty roug…
doesn't seem that strange to me. in the old SOAP days it was easier to run everything through a set of filters and just have what server code specified by a field.
in this case it is pretty clear they sped up requests by returning some generic data every request needed to update the app all at once as well. that's a pretty common requirement. netflix even allows client code to upload server code to pack responses into the least number
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#38Awesome, happy to find I have a 5/5 too!
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#39The window.Uber variable has a lot of interesting information, like "isAdmin," data about the last vehicle I rode in (interior color, exterior color, model year, capacity), last driver's phone number, "activeExperiments" which I assume are multivariate tests being run against me, etc
Their whole mapping scheme is pretty neat too on this "mobile" view.
They'll use lat/long to determine if the user is in China or not and then pull up google maps or baidu.
Beautify this (https://d1a3f4spazzrp4.cloudfront.net/web-mobile-client/js/m...) then check out line 13185 for loadMap (Map loading resources on # 13094)
They also create a gorgeous map "blur" effect when the user is ready to pull the trigger on a ride: http://snag.gy/rlBYX.jpg
Re: How to find your Uber passenger rating
#40I don't get why Uber doesn't tell me the exterior color of UberX cars coming to pick me up. I have no idea what a "Nissan Versa" is; knowing it's a blue minivan would be helpful.
I'm used to riding Lyft which uses a real picture of the vehicle. Last night, I was waiting for what I "thought" would be a red Hyundai and the driver had to yell to me before I realized that it was the car I was expecting.