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`curl -H "Authorization: fbAccessToken " https://api.lyft.com/users/ user id>` provides some basic profile, credit card, location and referral information but nothing about ratings. The lyft user ID can be obtained by logging in at www.lyft.com/login and viewing the source.
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…
In rough order of importance to drivers:
1) Not causing damage to their vehicles.
2) Giving good enough directions on pickup such that they waste a minimum of (unpaid) time getting to you, and exiting the car in an expeditious manner. An Uber driver's KPI is "number of minutes per day with the car in motion with a passenger in it." (This is the biggest reason why many of them keep multiple phones with multiple apps open -- minimizing time between trips maximizes the number of trips they take per day and, thus, revenue.)
3) Not contravening the usual covenants of civil society.
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.
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 .…
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They seem to display the license plate number now. That works perfectly.
Displaying the license plate number is less useful when the car is across the street or approaching from a distance. I also had a fun "gypsy black car running uber app trying to extort me" experience in NYC last trip, and a bunch of black cars who took 15-20 minutes to arrive (despite initially saying "3 minutes" and showing as around the corner). In a few cases I had the driver call me and give me useless directions…
Given that Uber apparently drops drivers that get below a 4.5 or something, I wouldn't expect much trouble from them...
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'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 . . .
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.
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Displaying the license plate number is less useful when the car is across the street or approaching from a distance. I also had a fun "gypsy black car running uber app trying to extort me" experience in NYC last trip, and a bunch of black cars who took 15-20 minutes to arrive (despite initially saying "3 minutes" and showing as around the corner). In a few cases I had the driver call me and give me useless directions…
Can you talk more about the extortion? Given that Uber apparently drops drivers that get below a 4.5 or something, I wouldn't expect much trouble from them...
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'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…
Both people in a transaction value the thing they have less than the thing the other person is offering, otherwise there's no reason to bother making the transaction.
At least, in theory.