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Re: How to find your Uber passenger rating

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Post by amitt »

madeofpalk wrote: post #7

This 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…

This is a common pattern when you want to batch requests. We used to use it at Zynga for games. Facebook also supports it for their APIs: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/making-multip...

Re: How to find your Uber passenger rating

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Post by chavesn »

madeofpalk wrote: post #7

This 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…

If, as another commenter mentioned, they want every request to update all the data in an app, this is quite an elegant pattern.

They don't have to modify any of their restful APIs to fetch or serialize more data than intended. Instead, the / endpoint might act as a wrapper, which does three things:

1. gets the entire app state

2. makes an internal API call of its own (proxies the one from the request)

3. merges the two results and returns them

Re: How to find your Uber passenger rating

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Post by silencio »

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 tells you the color though, even if the picture is misleading. It's next to the basic car info, license plate, and name.

They should definitely not be showing an image with the wrong color, but having the information is better than nothing.

Re: How to find your Uber passenger rating

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Post by smeyer »

politician wrote: post #93

I have absolutely zero interest in my Uber passenger rating. If they decide to start being ridiculous, I'll decide to start taking cabs again -- at least the cabbies generally have a clue about how to get to places, and don't bother with questions about "what route would you like me to take you on". The fastest route, thanks.

What city are you in? Here in Boston, my experience has been that the uber drivers are more likely than the taxi drivers to know how to get where I'd like to go.

Re: How to find your Uber passenger rating

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Post by mcpherrinm »

beeskneecaps wrote: post #89
sliverstorm wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That sounds like a nightmare. I often enjoy chatting with a travel companion, but some days I want nothing more than silence.

Precisely what I don't like about Lyft and the competing services. They don't stop talking. It's almost like they're instructed to be overly chatty. Silence isn't always bad at 8 in the morning when I'm trying to check email and communicate with work.

Lyft is absolutely instructed to be chatty. Along with the fistbumps, passengers defaulting to the front seat, and the pink moustaches, it's very much part of the experience they offer.

Personally, I enjoy talking with my drivers most of the time. If I want a quiet, professional ride in the back of a lincoln towncar, I opt for Uber Black.

Re: How to find your Uber passenger rating

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Post by zobzu »

AVTizzle wrote: post #24
zobzu wrote: post #14

I've only had a few rides and ive 4.9 (ie someone didnt rate me 5.0). Meh. Then again, I don't feel bad rating drivers because they sell me a service, I'm rating that (it wouldnt even have to include their name - it probably shouldn't. then again I'm european, we seem to have slightly different ethics). I feel bad that they rate us because we don't provide them with anything. That rating is going to be saved, sold an…

Just like any other marketplace transaction, we the buyers do provide the suppliers (drivers) with value. Equal value, of course. Much of that value is automated in the form of our credit card details in our Uber app. But we do provide value in a few other forms: not being obnoxious, not trashing/puking in their car, not harassing them physically or verbally. All these things happen to taxi and Uber drivers regularly…

every company eventually goes to the dark side and does something like that, unless it dies before and then nobody knows if the data is gone or not. I'm not sure how its unfair. Pretty sure their 10000 lines clauses will indicate something saying they own all this data, including your location data, etc and reserve to use whatever they want with it.

also at the minimum they should make clear the passenger (you) is going to be rated IMO. Maybe that'd solve the issue of passengers not being courteous or whatever.

Re: How to find your Uber passenger rating

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Post by zobzu »

eru wrote: post #110
beggi wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree - it seems like much better design to tell you the color of the car picking you up :)

For those people able to see colours.

So because some people are colorblind or just blind lets not do it. Great logic.

I think we should also disable voice calls. Some people are deaf.

Re: How to find your Uber passenger rating

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Post by nulltype »

onedev wrote: post #100
the_economist wrote: post #79

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.

What things did you do to be "the perfect passenger"?

  * Complimented the driver on his/her looks
  * Brought cookies
  * Always punctual
  * Provided shoulder to cry on when required
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