How to find your Uber passenger rating • Hacker News Board

Re: How to find your Uber passenger rating

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Post by ejstronge » Mon, Jul 28, 2014, 4:33 AM UTC

lnanek2 wrote: post #36

rdl wrote: post #26

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.

Zip car is the same way. They have a picture of the vehicle, but it isn't the right color, just some generic picture.

Zipcar names its vehicles, though - if you only have five candidate cars (in a somewhat large 'Ziphome'), having a name is better than having a vehicle type + color as there are sometimes similar looking vehicles next to each other.

Re: How to find your Uber passenger rating

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Post by schnaars » Mon, Jul 28, 2014, 4:35 AM UTC

I've just asked my driver and they tell you.

Re: How to find your Uber passenger rating

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Post by sunasra » Mon, Jul 28, 2014, 4:36 AM UTC

dont they show officially?

Re: How to find your Uber passenger rating

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Post by rco8786 » Mon, Jul 28, 2014, 4:38 AM UTC

4.9!

I use uber multiple time per week and have for years. So I guess I'm not an asshole.

Re: How to find your Uber passenger rating

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Post by peterwwillis » Mon, Jul 28, 2014, 4:39 AM UTC

po wrote: post #70

My twitter stream is now full of people, some of whom I am sure do not have the skill to evaluate if something is a JavaScript security threat or not, who have copied and pasted a random script they read on the internet into the developer console. Granted, this one is pretty simple and easier to evaluate than most, but still… you really get why Facebook hacked the console to warn people not to do that. edit: This twe…

It's just phishing via web console. You can convince humans to do just about anything for the right incentive.

Re: How to find your Uber passenger rating

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Post by aroman » Mon, Jul 28, 2014, 4:41 AM UTC

girvo wrote: post #61

The site now says that the mobile site is unavailable. Perhaps they've taken it down to fix this? I'm in Australia, so maybe that's it.

Worked fine for me just now. In the US.

Re: How to find your Uber passenger rating

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Post by swang » Mon, Jul 28, 2014, 4:42 AM UTC

I wonder if `window.Uber.pingData.client.activeExperiments` is the test groups you're currently in at the moment...

Re: How to find your Uber passenger rating

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Post by chandraonline » Mon, Jul 28, 2014, 4:50 AM UTC

schnaars wrote: post #72

I've just asked my driver and they tell you.

Exactly this. I didn't know this was such a big secret. In one of the rides, I happened to be in an Uber that I had taken before and the driver remarked "Hey! you have dropped down from 5 to 4.9". And I exactly remember that just a few days before I shared a ride with a friend , and he was being a dick to the driver unnecessarily.

Re: How to find your Uber passenger rating

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Post by the_economist » Mon, Jul 28, 2014, 4:54 AM UTC

I've been aware of my Uber passenger rating for about a year. When I first found out about it, my rating was a 4.9. Once I realized that I was being rated, I worked really hard to be the perfect passenger. I had my rating up to a 5.0 for a few months. Then I got lazy about being perfect and it has since dropped to a 4.8.

Re: How to find your Uber passenger rating

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Post by Stasis5001 » Mon, Jul 28, 2014, 4:58 AM UTC

baddox wrote: post #50

blake8086 wrote: post #16

So if you check this after every ride, you'll know exactly what everyone rated you, right?

There's no guarantee that it's a simple arithmetic mean. They could weight by recency or do any number of more complicated calculations.

At the very least, if you're like most users who rate between 4 and 5, you can most likely tell if the driver rated you a 5 (rating goes up) or below a 5 (rating goes down). It would take a pretty strange algorithm to violate that. Of course, this only helps if your rating changes at all