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Re: How to find your Uber passenger rating

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Post by ceras »

smeyer wrote: post #115
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.

In NYC there are strict requirements[1] that cab drivers know how to get practically anywhere in Manhattan, and to major parts of the outer boroughs. You can report them if they don't.

[1]: http://www.nyc.gov/html/tlc/html/faq/faq_pass.shtml#7

Re: How to find your Uber passenger rating

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Post by crdblb »

minusSeven wrote: post #154
finnn wrote: post #44

I somehow have a 4, the lowest in this thread (that I've seen so far). I wonder what I did, I generally try to be polite to the drivers and I rarely use the service, so I suspect I got one extremely poor rating? I can't imagine when though. Anyway, looks like you can go and pull the token out of the page and just do curl https://m.uber.com/cn --data '{"messageType":"PingClient","token":"xxxxx","app":"client"}' | jq .…

I guess soon enough Chef's and restaurant's will be rating customers as well. In restaurant's there would be cutoff points for being a customer. You didn't pay enough tips in the last restaurant you were a part of - you are now bared from getting into a good restaurant now. Joking above but the whole concept of dual rating scares me a bit .......

Restaurants already keep notes on their customers and refer to them whenever you call or make a reservation online. If you're a less-than-ideal customer, they won't do something as overt as refuse service (unless you did something truly horrible last time you were in), but they might be more likely to squeeze you in for a last-minute seating during a busy time if you've got some good things about you in the notes.

Re: How to find your Uber passenger rating

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Post by jacalata »

crdblb wrote: post #192
minusSeven wrote: post #154

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I guess soon enough Chef's and restaurant's will be rating customers as well. In restaurant's there would be cutoff points for being a customer. You didn't pay enough tips in the last restaurant you were a part of - you are now bared from getting into a good restaurant now. Joking above but the whole concept of dual rating scares me a bit .......

Restaurants already keep notes on their customers and refer to them whenever you call or make a reservation online. If you're a less-than-ideal customer, they won't do something as overt as refuse service (unless you did something truly horrible last time you were in), but they might be more likely to squeeze you in for a last-minute seating during a busy time if you've got some good things about you in the notes.

Maybe some restaurants. Not the one I worked at. And unless they share them in some kind of city-wide (or international) database, it's not the same effect as uber refusing to have you as a customer any more.

Re: How to find your Uber passenger rating

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Post by jacalata »

gravity13 wrote: post #132
ldd- wrote: post #56

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I'm in your boat . . . I have a 4. I've used Uber only once - to help my mom to a doctor's appointment after she broke her hip. I guess we were slow and a bit of a burden . . .

The first couple of times people tip drivers extra, they probably get rated as 5. Everybody else becomes a 4 after that, maybe?

people actually do that? way to go, morons.

Re: How to find your Uber passenger rating

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Post by skeletonjelly »

Fragment wrote: post #138
skeletonjelly wrote: post #96

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

Relevant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8046710 (Well, it's not really relevant but you reminded me of it ^_^)

Ah awesome thanks! Didn't cross my mind to link to the commit's line number. Still, have to agree with some commenters about having the link go to it by default.

Re: How to find your Uber passenger rating

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Post by jrockway »

matmann2001 wrote: post #185
aetherson wrote: post #175

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From my experience with cab drivers (not Uber drivers), the idea is supposed to be that if you do not have a preferred route, the driver takes the most efficient route based on some kind of gestalt between lowest cost and fastest service. The deal is, some passengers are convinced they know the best route from point A to point B, and will accuse drivers of trying to con them if they don't take that route. So if the p…

I had a situation with Uber where the driver missed an exit, even though he had a GPS and it was telling him to take it. I think it was an honest mistake, and not him trying to run up the meter. But it bugged me that he didn't bother to do anything about it. That missed turn made the trip nearly 10 minutes longer and I had to pay for it. There should be some way for the driver adjust the fare to compensate for when s…

This happened to me too, except we ended up in an hour-long traffic jam. Still didn't cost very much, and traffic was pretty bad elsewhere, but yeah.

Basically, if your Uber driver starts using a traditional GPS instead of Google Maps, get worried. That's my experience using Uber in LA for longish trips out to Marina del Rey, anyway.

(Going the other way: "The LA convention center? Where's that?" "Right next to the Staples Center." "Do you know what streets?". I did, but really? I'm from New York and don't have a driver's license, and _I_ know how to get there...)

Re: How to find your Uber passenger rating

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Post by jarek »

jacalata wrote: post #194
gravity13 wrote: post #132

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The first couple of times people tip drivers extra, they probably get rated as 5. Everybody else becomes a 4 after that, maybe?

people actually do that? way to go, morons.

Well the whole "tipping" mindset leads to that. It's supposed to be something extra, beyond what's required. Now they've started using it instead of having realistic prices and wages and developed social standards where tipping less than x% is supposed to be the signal (x ever increasing). The idea has gotten so ingrained that people tip on "tip-included" prices too. Soon it'll all be a "donation" with a "service charge", de facto mandatory "tip", and extra tips on top.
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