New Yorkers Can Now Get Unlimited UberPool in Manhattan for $200 • Hacker News Board

Re: New Yorkers Can Now Get Unlimited UberPool in Manhattan for $200

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Post by bkjsbkjdnf » Thu, Sep 29, 2016, 2:49 PM UTC

ixtli wrote: post #11

Before you get all excited about this, it's ONLY UberPOOL and your destination must start and end in Manhattan. So if you use this to commute for two weeks you're paying 10 (edit: obviously 100/20 = 5, it's early. leave me alone) dollars flat for a cab ride that you share and will take longer than normal because of the overhead of splitting the ride. There are certainly some people for whom this will be cost effectiv…

> So if you use this to commute for two weeks you're paying 10 dollars flat for a cab ride that you share and will take longer than normal because of the overhead of splitting the ride.

So, you take a ride to work and then you teleport back to your origin?

Re: New Yorkers Can Now Get Unlimited UberPool in Manhattan for $200

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Post by reacharavindh » Thu, Sep 29, 2016, 2:54 PM UTC

technofiend wrote: post #5

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #3

The page comes up blank for me, likely due to my content blockers. Alternate link: https://www.timeout.com/newyork/blog/you-can-buy-unlimited-u...

We need a site ban for forbes.com due to their actively filtering people with ad blocking and history of serving up malware-laden ads. Thank you for the alternate link.

Yes, I have a mental filter to just not click any links to forbes.com. If there were more people who feel the same way, may be we can avoid posting them to HN on account of convenience. (I have nothing against forbes. If they choose to not cater to people with ad blockers, it is their choice. But, I think it's HN community's choice to avoid them.)

Re: New Yorkers Can Now Get Unlimited UberPool in Manhattan for $200

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Post by ixtli » Thu, Sep 29, 2016, 2:56 PM UTC

bkjsbkjdnf wrote: post #21

ixtli wrote: post #11

Before you get all excited about this, it's ONLY UberPOOL and your destination must start and end in Manhattan. So if you use this to commute for two weeks you're paying 10 (edit: obviously 100/20 = 5, it's early. leave me alone) dollars flat for a cab ride that you share and will take longer than normal because of the overhead of splitting the ride. There are certainly some people for whom this will be cost effectiv…

> So if you use this to commute for two weeks you're paying 10 dollars flat for a cab ride that you share and will take longer than normal because of the overhead of splitting the ride. So, you take a ride to work and then you teleport back to your origin?

Hah. yes fixed.

Re: New Yorkers Can Now Get Unlimited UberPool in Manhattan for $200

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Post by Eridrus » Thu, Sep 29, 2016, 2:57 PM UTC

whenwillitstop wrote: post #10

I live in Manhattan. This is a rip off. The Uber Pool rides can take up to an hour sometimes, they drop off and pick up up to five people on your way. Uber if you are reading this, everyone in NYC realizes what a waste of time Uber Pool is.

Lyft line works pretty well for trips inside Brooklyn.

Re: New Yorkers Can Now Get Unlimited UberPool in Manhattan for $200

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Post by awesomerobot » Thu, Sep 29, 2016, 2:58 PM UTC

This is actually a worse deal compared to the existing Uber Pool Pass for people commuting to a 9-5 20/40 times a week — using that service put you at ~$4/ride.

Interesting to see Uber attempting to compete at a slightly-more than public transit price, but it still seems unsustainable when it comes to paying drivers a fair wage.

Re: New Yorkers Can Now Get Unlimited UberPool in Manhattan for $200

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Post by alex_c » Thu, Sep 29, 2016, 2:59 PM UTC

whenwillitstop wrote: post #10

I live in Manhattan. This is a rip off. The Uber Pool rides can take up to an hour sometimes, they drop off and pick up up to five people on your way. Uber if you are reading this, everyone in NYC realizes what a waste of time Uber Pool is.

"Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded." -- Yogi Berra

Re: New Yorkers Can Now Get Unlimited UberPool in Manhattan for $200

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Post by aianus » Thu, Sep 29, 2016, 2:59 PM UTC

whenwillitstop wrote: post #10

I live in Manhattan. This is a rip off. The Uber Pool rides can take up to an hour sometimes, they drop off and pick up up to five people on your way. Uber if you are reading this, everyone in NYC realizes what a waste of time Uber Pool is.

That sounds wildly successful to me...

Re: New Yorkers Can Now Get Unlimited UberPool in Manhattan for $200

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Post by SomeCollegeBro » Thu, Sep 29, 2016, 3:03 PM UTC

technofiend wrote: post #5

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #3

The page comes up blank for me, likely due to my content blockers. Alternate link: https://www.timeout.com/newyork/blog/you-can-buy-unlimited-u...

We need a site ban for forbes.com due to their actively filtering people with ad blocking and history of serving up malware-laden ads. Thank you for the alternate link.

I tried to read this article and I couldn't even finish the first sentence. They have a video advertisement with both a pause and a mute button that doesn't work. If you don't want people to ad block, perhaps consider ads that don't drive people away in the first place.

Re: New Yorkers Can Now Get Unlimited UberPool in Manhattan for $200

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Post by Guest98123 » Thu, Sep 29, 2016, 3:05 PM UTC

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #3

The page comes up blank for me, likely due to my content blockers. Alternate link: https://www.timeout.com/newyork/blog/you-can-buy-unlimited-u...

With Firefox and uBlock Origin it's blank for about 20 seconds, and then forwards to the content.

Re: New Yorkers Can Now Get Unlimited UberPool in Manhattan for $200

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Post by jacques_chester » Thu, Sep 29, 2016, 3:16 PM UTC

CoolGuySteve wrote: post #17

whenwillitstop wrote: post #10

I live in Manhattan. This is a rip off. The Uber Pool rides can take up to an hour sometimes, they drop off and pick up up to five people on your way. Uber if you are reading this, everyone in NYC realizes what a waste of time Uber Pool is.

How does Uber Pool even work during rush hour? Do you spend all day trapped in Times Square waiting to pick up the second person? Or does Uber try and route around gridlock? Does it just skip the other person if the car gets stuck? Or maybe I'm paranoid because of a bad experience trying to get to a job interview via cab my first time in NYC.

Uber's wayfinding logic in Manhattan is actively dumb. With billions of dollars they could just hire a thousand locals to sit in a passenger seat to give navigation instructions.

If a car is ahead of me on an avenue, even by half a street, it will send them around the block instead of suggesting I walk forward a bit.

Or, instead of asking me to cross an avenue, it will send the driver down a different avenue for multiple streets to loop back to my position.

It is obsessed with getting on to the expressways. It will happily crawl past relatively free-flowing avenues to squeeze into an expressway full of cars heading to Westchester.

Its estimates of ETA seem to assume that there is no traffic. They are hilariously bad.

Drivers, who have been burnt by customers getting mad at them for not going to an exact location or for "ripping them off", follow the map religiously. No matter what I text or call. They follow an app which was presumably written by people who've never set foot in this city.