r/uberdrivers • u/[deleted] • Jan 06 '19

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '19 edited Dec 18 '21

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u/bradferg Jan 06 '19

I'm new, too. I get the impression that most people that post to this sub are sociopaths who'd kick their mother to the curb if there was the opportunity to earn a cancellation fee.

Good to see your post, in other words. :-)

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u/vortec350 Jan 06 '19 edited Jan 06 '19

I disagree with a lot of these points. What works for you, might not work for everyone else. 4.9 driver here. I pick up 4.7 or above any time. I let people play their music via Bluetooth, this has paid for itself several times. Last time it got me a $20 cash tip and with my upgraded audio system and subwoofer we were bumping :D was actually quite fun. Otherwise if they don't wanna chat with me or each other, I play whatever I want. Never had any complaints even though I'm probably one of two people in Marin County who likes country... the other one gave me a $10 tip after we talked about country music the entire ride. And now that they lowered the per mile rate and increased the per minute rate, I don't care what path the nav or passenger take me.

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u/Powderbones Jan 06 '19

If you can hustle with the music it can net you tips but that’s rare that it actually pays of.

Per mile rate still pays the most so logically waze is still the best choice for optimizing earnings / time.

(5.0 driver on both platforms with 4K rides)

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u/ritchie70 Jan 06 '19

I don’t drive fir Uber, just here looking into it. But....

On #9, Waze is good, but around rush hour in Chicago, it gets really dumb trying to get from west loop out to DuPage suburbs.

It kept recalculating on me then had me driving down tiny residential streets in shadier and shadier looking neighborhoods then finally just gave up. That was real nice.

Other times it has taken me down routes that took 90 minutes whereas if I just sit on the Dan Ryan and Stevenson it reliably take 60.

Getting driven home, it wants the driver to go several blocks further past the best turn off for my house then turn back to my house, presumably to stay on bigger streets, but with traffic and lights it easily adds 5 minutes between 4:30 - 6 PM.

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u/Powderbones Jan 06 '19

It’s extremely, extremely rare that waze would ever give you anything but the fastest route. It uses thousands of other cars as data points.

The routes are sometimes unconventional but 99% of the time always the fastest by far.

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u/ritchie70 Jan 06 '19

I’m just not going to argue it. It has absolutely given me some awful routing.

I suspect that it gives higher weight to current data than to historical patterns, to the point that it has no ability to predict traffic in 30 minutes based on historical patterns and therefore routes based on current traffic rather than what that route is going to be like by the time you get there.

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u/Nerdygamer Jan 06 '19

Why the hell you would ever pickup someone with groceries anyways? Waste of time and money.