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Re:Inside Uber’s Aggressive, Unrestrained Workplace Culture by toast0 on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @11:02PM (#13711531)
You can't get on the phone and call a cab, and expect it to arrive in San Jose; even when the dispatcher tells you it's on it's way, and it'll arrive shortly. Uber shows you where the drivers are before you request a ride, and once you request a ride, it shows you which car was picked for you and that the car is making progress towards the pickup location, and provides a price estimate before you request the pickup.

I'd guess I've called in for around 10 cab rides, and have had two experiences where a cab was requested, I was told it would come, and had it not come after waiting for much longer than was reasonable.

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Re:Inside Uber’s Aggressive, Unrestrained Workplace Culture by rrdharan on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @11:55PM (#13711762)
> Uber shows you where the drivers are before you request a ride

Uber doesn't actually show you where the drivers are before you request the ride. Those little animated icons just represent the density of available drivers, not actual car positions.

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Re:Inside Uber’s Aggressive, Unrestrained Workplace Culture by aboodman on Thursday February 23, 2017 @01:08AM (#13711986)
Doesn't matter. The animation solves the user problem, which is knowing whether pressing the button is going to result in a cab soon or not soon.
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Re:Inside Uber’s Aggressive, Unrestrained Workplace Culture by linkregister on Thursday February 23, 2017 @02:42AM (#13712336)
I've heard this many times on HN. Where is the source material for this?

(It just sounds really dishonest for the app to do this)

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Re:Inside Uber’s Aggressive, Unrestrained Workplace Culture by awongh on Thursday February 23, 2017 @05:01AM (#13712779)
http://mashable.com/2015/07/29/uber-app-accuracy/#bsS69hn3pg...
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Re:Inside Uber’s Aggressive, Unrestrained Workplace Culture by linkregister on Friday February 24, 2017 @06:55PM (#13729072)
The TLDR of this article is that vehicle locations are out-of-date due to latency and no more than eight vehicles are shown at a time.
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