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Re: How to find your Uber passenger rating

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Post by BrandonM »

lambda wrote: post #87
peterwwillis wrote: post #82

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Ways to make a driver happy: * Compliment their car or music * Ask them about themselves (how are you doing, where are you from, how long have you been driving) * Make small talk (how about this crazy weather/traffic/drunk people, do you have any weird stories, have you ever been to place xyz) * Tell them a little about yourself or where you just came from/are going to * Have the address of your destination or tell t…

* Leave a tip for efficient service I always thought part of the point of Uber was not having to deal with cash and tips. I've never left a tip for my driver, and never really had an opportunity to as it's all paid for by your credit card on file. However, I do most of the rest (never really thought of complementing anyone's car, they pretty much all run together to me), and have a 4.9. I never even thought about mak…

> From the conversations, Morocco sounds like the best place to go visit; the guy from Morocco waxes the most poetic about his homeland.

Maybe for guys, sure. You can find many stories like this one: http://www.neverendingfootsteps.com/2013/12/02/travelling-mo...

Re: How to find your Uber passenger rating

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Post by ZoFreX »

skeletonjelly wrote: post #96
eiopa wrote: post #42

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If you're curious, I put together a Python library for that: https://github.com/tals/uber.py Some of this is remainders from when they just had consultants working on this. Look at hash_password() at client.py :)

Deep link: https://github.com/tals/uber.py/blob/master/uber/client.py#L...

Permalink: https://github.com/tals/uber.py/blob/fee0ede7b0168200faa218f... (press 'y' while on a page to get the permalink)

Addendum: This is awful! (Uber's hashing, not the github code in question)

Re: How to find your Uber passenger rating

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Post by Zipster »

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.

In the US market every Zipcar has its name on the back to make identifying them easier, and if you're using the iPhone app you can see the license plate as well as details about the make and model.

Currently you can't tell the colour from the mobile app but it's a good idea. I've passed it along to the mobile team to see if it's feasible.

(Disclosure: I work for Zipcar)

Re: How to find your Uber passenger rating

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Post by madeofpalk »

rdl wrote: post #88
brandonbloom wrote: post #58

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Just guessing what he meant: The black cars in NYC with an iPhone on the dashboard running the Uber app aren't necessarily getting 100% of their fairs via Uber. If they see you as a potential client, they'll still try to pick you up off-network. If you already hailed an Uber, an unscrupulous driver may potentially tell you "Yeah, I'm from Uber". Although I'm not sure how they'd convince you to pay cash.

I was at W NY finishing my talk for HOPE X with my cospeaker; we were speaking at 2300h Friday so we took an Uber Black from the W to the Hotel Penn around 2100h. An Uber came within 2min of us calling it, approximately the right time, and we were a bit distracted. Walked over to the town car displaying the U logo, and I don't recall exactly, but somehow "You're Marc, right?" got exchanged, and we got in. The driver…

> Uber needs some superior authentication system for drivers; btle or wifi or flashing indicators on the phones themselves would be nice. Ultrasonic tones on microphone/speaker might work. > I'm used to fearing kidnapping and extortion by drivers (Middle East, Thailand, etc.), but not so much in NYC.

Or just better education on the lo-fi authentication you're supposed to use: have the driver ask for your name. 'Are you rdl?'

Re: How to find your Uber passenger rating

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Post by madeofpalk »

Vik1ng wrote: post #126
brandonbloom wrote: post #58

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Just guessing what he meant: The black cars in NYC with an iPhone on the dashboard running the Uber app aren't necessarily getting 100% of their fairs via Uber. If they see you as a potential client, they'll still try to pick you up off-network. If you already hailed an Uber, an unscrupulous driver may potentially tell you "Yeah, I'm from Uber". Although I'm not sure how they'd convince you to pay cash.

If they see you as a potential client, they'll still try to pick you up off-network. That is just the beginning. Long term this will become a lot more popular both for drivers as well as for customers as they can both get more money.

> Long term this will become a lot more popular both for drivers as well as for customers as they can both get more money.

As time goes on, it would be hard trying to find the right drivers though, and having to pay cash. If only there was a service that married you with drivers through a smartphone app...

Re: How to find your Uber passenger rating

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Post by diminoten »

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

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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.

I think everyone can see colors, even color "blind" people. Those folks just have a hard time distinguishing between shades of particular colors.

I don't think anyone's literally living in greyscale.

Re: How to find your Uber passenger rating

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Post by StavrosK »

eiopa wrote: post #42
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 you're curious, I put together a Python library for that: https://github.com/tals/uber.py Some of this is remainders from when they just had consultants working on this. Look at hash_password() at client.py :)

This has so many MD5s, it must be ultra secure!

Re: How to find your Uber passenger rating

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Post by hnha »

diminoten wrote: post #147
eru wrote: post #110

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For those people able to see colours.

I think everyone can see colors, even color "blind" people. Those folks just have a hard time distinguishing between shades of particular colors. I don't think anyone's literally living in greyscale.

there are but it is very rare and comes with drastically limited eye sight anyways.

Red/Green confusion is quite common though, there are estimates of up to 8% of ("western") males. Definitely a number to consider if you want your whatever to cater as many people on the market as possible.

Re: How to find your Uber passenger rating

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Post by ifyoumakeit »

buro9 wrote: post #136
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 pattern is standard within SOA (Service Oriented Architecture). You have two classes of services: 1. Technical Services 2. Business Services The technical services may be REST, SOAP, etc. These deal with the nuts and bolts of: update this one thing, fetch a load of these things (where they are the same thing). The business services are usually some flavour of RPC JSON or XML, and only occasionally are REST (thin…

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