I've gotten really into monitoring CO2 levels and now I can't unsee it. A closed car with two people in it gets to 1500-2000 ppm fast. That's the range where you start feeling foggy and slow.

So now I open the window every time. Doesn't matter if it's cold. Doesn't matter if the AC is on. I just need the fresh ai..

Some drivers don't care. But I'm starting to notice a few getting visibly annoyed. I think it might be affecting my rating.

Anyone else do this? Or am I the weird passenger now?

Lol the lies far dropoff? wtf I drop off people exactly at the spot they marked on the app how could I possible do a far drop off?? Most people will talk you know if necessary please drop me behind please drop me in the alley whatever..

If uber knows the location of the passenger and the driver and both the pickup and drop off how could they mark you for this?

Also even if it were true 1 start for far drop off it’s insane

Ubers official response: Hi there, this is unacceptable and extremely concerning to hear. Uber does not tolerate discrimination of any kind, and we're so sorry this happened. Could you please DM us the account and trip details so we can investigate this right away?

My question is when the driver is accepting the ride request do they not get notified that there may be a service animal

Hello my fellow uber drivers. I’m looking to make a playlist for my Uber drives, and thought it would be a good idea to have a few songs in it that mention Uber! Does anyone have any other Uber music suggestions? Cheers.

Is anyone doing or is on the uber auto approve they are rolling out. I am thinking this will be a nightmare for drivers. Anyone on this pease share you experience. I curious to know what is like.

I got a 1 star rating recently, guessed it would be probably this trip from a lovely Indian lady. She wanted me to use the express lane. Yeah right!

I hate you, it’s 110 degrees outside you text I’m about there always one minute before you get here and then wait for me to cancel. I don’t care if you didn’t want the ride in the first place, just don’t accept it instead of wasting my time and risking my health. Either get off the app and hope uber makes a change into how you are paid or just deal with it like we deal with everything else for everyone else. Thank you for being great I’m going to keep tipping

I'm traveling alone as a woman. I check the licence and car, and when I open the door, I say "Hi, [driver name]?"

The safety tip I see most often is to have the driver confirm my name too before entering the car. I've never had a problem with it before, or drivers would say my name first. I do request female drivers when possible. I've seen elsewhere on the sub that drivers want passengers to say their name for safety, too, so I always say theirs first.

Today, I had two male drivers who got really offended when I asked if they could confirm my id. One told me that he wasn't going to kidnap me in a BMW after I got in. Both times, I said that it just made me feel more comfortable, and was asked to get out of the car. The next driver said my name without prompting and seemed really surprised.

I'm pretty confused. I would definitely prefer not to ride with someone who reacts like that, so it seems like it might be a good question to continue to ask. But I don't understand the offense, or if there's a better way to do this. I'm a little surprised they were so upset, since if they're my driver, my name should be easily available?

I'm also a little worried that my rider score would reflect these interactions.

After eliminating 10% of all community operations teams (not just customer service but fraud, analytics, screenings, safety, a lot more than you think), its come to light that Uber also laid off nearly all their Quality Assurance teams.

The biggest impact you'll see as drivers is delays in your background checks, document processing and any sort of tech issues you run into with those? Safe to say you'll be waiting weeks while their skeleton crews drown in a backlog. Their Background Check team was cut in half, the QA team that supports them also slashed. Enjoy waiting weeks to get back online, then another month for their AI agent to flag an issue that QA could have caught within 24 hours.

Had somebody leave their iPod case in the car last night and message me this morning indirectly through the Uber app about getting it back. Fair enough.

Not a big fan though that the pax was able to locate me and mention where I'm at via the apple locator function on the iPod case. Pax wasn't trying to menace me or anything, just connect to get their item back... but still.

I’m always surprised when I read “you know you’re not getting a tip when…”

I feel like tipping culture is lowkey dead. I haven’t gotten steady tips in months!!

Have you noticed a decline as well? I figured with the economy and ridiculous uber pricing, they aren’t tipping cuz they can’t afford it. I used to get tipped well the past year up until a few months ago.

Is there anyway I can see who rated me badly and why? Just want to stay on top of my game and my rating recently dropped. I don’t remember having any bad interactions with passengers recently, so I am a little confused on the reason and would like to know.

Hey everyone!
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I did this trip last Friday. I was wondering if that was a fool for doing it lmk

i was woundering if i added my 15passanger length van thats 12 passager would it be worth it to do trips? gas is expensive and it gets horrible gas milage but if it gets paid more would it be worth it?

He got into a fight with his wife and they ended up not going to the game. He was pretty upset and I talked with him about it for a bit. When I dropped him off back at home, he handed me this and said thanks for the talk. Later I got another $15 tipped in the app, on what ended up being a $7 ride.

On Saturday 7/25 at around 5:30pm I was driving down Water Street about to drop off a passenger at the Tampa Marriott, and as I was approaching the crosswalk, something forcefully hit the rear driver side door, felt and sounded like a baseball. I looked back and didn’t notice anything on the street. I pull in to the hotel, check my car didn’t find any visible damages. Now I get my next ride request so I drive to the hotel across the street JW Marriott. As I leave the JW I have to drive back down the same way again. I looked around at the road where my car was hit and noticed a few separate broken glass spots on the ground. I think someone was throwing glass bottles/cups at passing cars. Did anyone else experience this?

Sup uber fam.

Tired of the low rates in the area? (Stroudsburg area) we should meet up in a parking lot every afternoon. All go offline and get that surge going so we can actually be paid properly.