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Re:SF Yellow Cab to file for bankruptcy by fancyketchup on Thursday January 07, 2016 @01:53AM (#10856430)
Sounds like it does most of what ride-share services do.

Does Flywheel allow you to rate individual drivers/cars (and prevent being matched to creepy drivers or dirty cars on future rides)? I think that's actually one of the biggest value-adds of Uber/Lyft/Sidecar--direct feedback about drivers which tends to retain good drivers and reject bad ones.

Re:SF Yellow Cab to file for bankruptcy by habosa on Thursday January 07, 2016 @11:40AM (#10858909)
You can rate your ride, I have no idea what happens to the feedback.

The uber/lyft rating system is a little broken these days since many drivers will ask you to exchange 5-star ratings with them (you have a rating too). When a bad driver is a 4.8 and a good driver is a 4.9 it's hard for me to tell what I am getting into.

Re:SF Yellow Cab to file for bankruptcy by fancyketchup on Thursday January 07, 2016 @02:21PM (#10860057)
Huh. I haven't ever run into that, and I've been using uber twice a week for more than a year. Maybe it just comes down to which city you're in?